Che Guevara
(see also Cuba: Revolution 1959-1990 & Cuba: Revolution Abroad)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Bourne, Richard. "Che Guevara," in his Political Leaders of Latin America (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 19??).
Guevara, Che. "Notes on the Cuban revolution," Studies on the Left (sum 66):75-85.
__________. "Vietnam must not stand alone," New Left Review 43 (1967):79-91.
Guillermoprieto, Alma. "The harsh angel," in her Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America (NY: Vintage, 2001), pp. 73-86.
Löwy, Michael. "Che's revolutionary humanism," Monthly Review 49,5 (10/97):1-7.\
Valdés, Nelson. "La Cachita y el Ché: patron saints of revolutionary Cuba," Encounters 1 (1989):30-34.
Widener, Daniel L. Review essay on books of Anderson, Castañeda, Taibo II & Kunzle. Radical History Review 74 (spr 99):217-30.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Almeyra, Guillermo y Enzo Santarelli. Ché: el pensamiento rebelde (México, 1997).
Anderson, Jon Lee. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (NY, 1997).
Bonachea, Rolando E. & Nelson P. Valdés (eds.) Ché: Selected Writings of Ernesto Guevara (Cambridge MA: MIT, 1972).
Castañeda, Jorge G. Compañero: The Life & Death of Che Guevara [Vida en rojo: una biografía del Ché Guevara] (NY, 1997).
Dosal, Paul J. Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander & Strategist, 1956-1967 (University Park: Pennsylvania State U, 2003).
González, Luis J. & Gustavo A. Sánchez Salazar. The Great Rebel: Che Guevara in Bolivia (NY: Grove, 1969).
Guevara, Che. Guerrilla Warfare [La guerra de guerrillas] [1960] (eds. Brian Loveman & Thomas M. Davies; Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1985).
__________. Socialism & Man [1965] (NY: Pathfinder, 1968).
__________. Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches & Writings (NY, 1967).
__________. Venceremos! Speeches & Writings of Che Guevara (ed. John Gerassi; London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1968).
Hodges, Donald C. The Legacy of Che Guevara: A Documentary Study (London, 1977).
James, Daniel. Che Guevara (London, 1970).
__________ (ed.) The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara, & Other Captured Documents (NY, 2000).
Kalfon, Pierre. Ché: Ernesto Guevara, una leyenda de nuestro siglo (Barcelona, 1997).
Kunzle, David. Che Guevara: Icon, Myth & Message (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1997).
Lowy, Michael. The Marxism of Che Guevara: Philosophy, Economics & Revolutionary Warfare [1970] (NY: Monthly Review, 1973).
Mallin, Jay. "Che" Guevara on Revolution (Miami: U. of Miami, 1969).
Martínez Heredia, Fernando. Ché, el socialismo y el comunismo (La Habana, 1989).
Ortega, Benjamín. El Che Guevara (Cuernavaca: CIDOC, 1968).
Ryan, Henry B. The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, & Diplomats (NY, 1998).
Sauvage, Leo. Che Guevara: The Failure of a Revolutionary (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973).
Serguera Riverí, Jorge. Caminos del Che: Datos inéditos de su vida (México, 1997).
Sinclair, Andrew. Ché Guevara (NY, 1970).
Taibo II, Paco Ignacio; Froilan Escobar y Félix Guerra. El año en que estuvimos en ninguna parte: la guerrilla africana de Ernesto Ché Guevara (México, 1994).
__________. Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Ché (México, 1996).
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CD & Audio
Film & Video
"El Che: Investigating a Legend" [199??], dir. ?, 90m.
"Ernesto Che Guevara: The Bolivian Diary" [1997], dir. Richard Dindo, 94m.
"Mi hijo el Che: un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara" [1985], dir. Fernando Birri, 70m.
"Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)" [2004], dir. Walter Salles, 128m. In video stores. As callow youths Che & pal Alberto Granado explore much of South America on motorcycle in 1953-54 -- during which time Che shows first faint signs of vocation for revolution.
"Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara?" [2001], dir. E. Gandii & T. Saleh, 60m. From Cinema Guild. Interviews with Che's ex-lieutenant & presumed betrayer Ciro Bustos, Bolivian army officers, CIA agents & historians raise serious questions about how history is written.
"Tracing Che" [19??], dir. Lawrence Elman, 52m.