Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life / Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara / The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America

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Che Guevara:A Revolutionary Life. BY JON LEE ANDERSON. New York: Grove Press, 1997, 814 pp. $35.00.

Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. BY JORGE G. CASTANEDA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1997, 352 pp. $30.00.

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America. BY ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA. New York: Verso,1995, 155 pp. $50.00 (paper, $10.00).

Jon Lee Anderson spent over five years researching his remarkable book on the life of Che Guevara, including a lengthy period in Cuba where he had access to government archives and many of Guevara's friends and family. His investigations and interviews in...