• Che “mania” set to continue with two new films, including one by Robert Redford based on Che’s motorcycle diary and another biographical movie by Steven Soderbergh (director of “Traffic”). Redford’s film is due for release in September 2003 (just after the release of this book). Soderbergh’s film, with Benicio del Torre, will be released halfway through the Fall 200 ...
  This is Che Guevara’s last diary, compiled from notebooks found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed. It became an instant bestseller. Newly revised by Che’s widow (Aleida March), and including a thoughtful preface by his eldest son Camilo, this is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America.   ...
The New York Times best-selling book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times best seller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the i ...
"A wonderful glimpse into the maturing mind of a great man and a vital companion to the previous Che diaries."—Michael McCaughan, The Irish Times"Guevara . . . chronicles labor uprisings and resistance against the influences and interests of the US and its intelligence operations. Guevara's passions for history, archaeology, and science are also apparent in this absorbing glimpse of the development of a legendary revolutionary ...
Che's original diaries from the revolutionary war fought in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra from which he later wrote the articles that comprise his famous book, «Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War.» All Che’s diaries—from his early Motorcycle Diaries and its sequel, Latin America Diaries, through to his last diary from Bolivia—are extraordinary examples of his literary gift and his political incisiveness, in terms of his personal reflectio ...
Ulrike Guerot outlines the idea of a radically different Europe: Europe as a Republic. The concept is based on two pillars: Firstly, the principle of political equality for all European citizens and the separation of powers, instead of a non-transparent and technocratic «trilogy» of the existing European institutions. Secondly, strong European regions actively participating in European decision- making. One market, one currency, one democracy: ...
This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s until the authorities decided that his ideas were dangerous, banning Kronrod's publications until his death in 1984. Kronrod argued that while nation ...
This book chronicles the diplomacy of civil rights activist Theodore Brown and the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) to help end the Nigeria-Biafra civil war from 1967 to 1970. The book challenges histories dismissive of the ANLCA and makes its contribution to African American history and U.S. history by arguing that the group was successful as the only African American group allowed to serve as mediators to the conflict. Th ...
