| Title | : | Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him |
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1595230270 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2007-04-19 |
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A critical biography of the iconic communist revolutionary, and an expose of the liberals who lionize him. Nearly four decades after his death, it’s impossible to avoid the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara everywhere from T-shirts to cartoons. Liberals consider Che a revolutionary martyr who gave his life to help the poor of Latin America. Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people of the last century. And a major Hollywood movie is about to lionize him to a new generation. The reality, as we learn from Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, is that Che wasn’t really a gentle soul and a selfless hero. He was a violent Communist who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach of a woman six months pregnant whose only crime was that her family opposed him. And he was a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while cultivating his image as a man of the people. Fontova reveals that Che openly talked about his desire to use nuclear weapons again
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Fontova gets right to the work of debunking familiar notions of Argentinan revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevera; by the end of the preface, he's pinned 14,000 executions on Guevera and credited positive portrayals to the public relations work of Castro and the laziness of biographers. The critical attack continues throughout, combining the testimonies of former revolutionaries and Cuban refugees to assemble a damning portrait of a man lauded by everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jon Lee Anderson. According to Fontova, the real Che was "a revolutionary Ringo Starr" who "fell in with the right bunch and rode their coattails to world fame." Presenting a failed physician, an inept guerrilla and a hapless sycophant, Fontova adds insult to injury by claiming Che was "deathly afraid to drive a motorcycle." Fontova's charged language keeps things interesting, if occasionally dubious; midway through the book, after asserting that Che enjoyed killing dogs, Fontova concedes t
He soaked up these secrets, this small, apparently harmless man, and then he spewed them out in public to the embarrassment of all.
I read this book in one long session, literally could not stop reading. Back then it was devastating.
I read this back to back with a small book of Truman Capote's early stories that is just being released. The third section looks at green marketing "because," says Dr. For example: Why was the damage from the Hannukah Eve storm so much more extensive than the damage from the Columbus Day storm? Why are our storms not called hurricanes when we get them with hurricane force winds? This book also gives you the science behind our weather in easy to understand language with great illustrations. I am enjoying the story so far but I have to admit the constant obsession and worry over this dark taint seems a little over done. I have a book published on Teaching Elementary Music and was looking for something similar for teaching band as I went
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