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"""[An] exceptional and exciting biography."" -- ""Booklist"" ""[Che's] curious mixture of resoluteness and recklessness...is brilliantly evoked in Jon Lee Anderson's massive biography."" -- ""Times Literary Supplement (London)"" ""[Guevara's] victories and failures, equally spectacular, are part of our common history...Che lives, not only in this book, but in the world."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""An important journalistic biography that is sympathetic to this influential figure. Though controversy will surround this book (as it always does when the subject is Che), this is an important volume that should be in all academic and most public libraries."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Armando Durán gives a brilliant performance that captures Che in all his contradictions. Duran displays his inherent acting ability in this reading that does full justice to the prose and never fails to captivate, despite the near 37-hour length."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred audio review)"" ""Dogged reporting has enabled him to do is to tell us, in wonderful new detail, about the hero as a youth."" -- ""New Yorker"" ""Excellent...admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched."" -- ""Los Angeles Times"" ""Paints a portrait of Guevara as both hero and fanatic...Students of Che's life and deeds need look no farther than Anderson's volume."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Superb...Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth."" -- ""New York Times Book Review "" ""The gifted bilingual narrator Armando Durán speaks both American English and the abundant Latin-American Spanish without a trace of accent from the other. His fluency with both languages synchronizes the messenger with the message...A riveting biography. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."" -- ""AudioFile"""

"""[An] exceptional and exciting biography."" -- ""Booklist"" ""[Che's] curious mixture of resoluteness and recklessness...is brilliantly evoked in Jon Lee Anderson's massive biography."" -- ""Times Literary Supplement (London)"" ""[Guevara's] victories and failures, equally spectacular, are part of our common history...Che lives, not only in this book, but in the world."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""An important journalistic biography that is sympathetic to this influential figure. Though controversy will surround this book (as it always does when the subject is Che), this is an important volume that should be in all academic and most public libraries."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Armando Dur�n gives a brilliant performance that captures Che in all his contradictions. Duran displays his inherent acting ability in this reading that does full justice to the prose and never fails to captivate, despite the near 37-hour length."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred audio review)"" ""Dogged reporting has enabled him to do is to tell us, in wonderful new detail, about the hero as a youth."" -- ""New Yorker"" ""Excellent...admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched."" -- ""Los Angeles Times"" ""Paints a portrait of Guevara as both hero and fanatic...Students of Che's life and deeds need look no farther than Anderson's volume."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Superb...Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth."" -- ""New York Times Book Review "" ""The gifted bilingual narrator Armando Dur�n speaks both American English and the abundant Latin-American Spanish without a trace of accent from the other. His fluency with both languages synchronizes the messenger with the message...A riveting biography. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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Jon Lee Anderson began working as a reporter in 1979 for the Lima Times in Peru. During the 1980s he covered Central America first for the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and later for Time magazine. He has also written for the New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation and is the author of Guerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World. Armando Durán has appeared in films, television, and regional theaters throughout the West Coast. For the last decade he has been a member of the resident acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2009 he was named by AudioFile as Best Voice in Biography and History for his narration of Che Guevara. A native Californian, he divides his time between Los Angeles and Ashland, Oregon.

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