Summary
Making use of unprecedented access to Guevara's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biography traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary. Full description
- A plantation in Misiones
- The dry climate of Alta Gracia
- The boy of many names
- His own man
- Escape to the north
- I am not the person I was before
- Without knowing which way is north
- Finding north
- Day without shame or glory
- A terrible shower of cold water
- My proletarian life
- God and his new right hand
- The sacred flame within me
- A disastrous beginning
- Days of water and bombs
- Lean cows and horsemeat
- Enemies of all kinds
- Extending the war
- The final push
- The supreme prosecutor
- My historic duty
- We are the future and we know it
- Individualism must disappear
- These atomic times
- Guerrilla watershed
- The long good-bye
- The story of a failure
- No turning back
- Necessary sacrifice
- Epilogue : Dreams and curses
- Notes
- Sources
- Selected bibliography
- Maps
- Chronology.