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Issue: Che: A Graphic Biography #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagFarrar, Straus, and Giroux
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Indicia Publisher: Hill and Wang
On Sale Date: 2009
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Pages: 136
ISBN: 97808090949290809094924
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Price: $22.00 USD
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Content Items: 27 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Publishing Format: Graphic Novel
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First Line: We dedicate this book to our wives, Ruth Ashby Colón and Shure Jacobson, who were always there to share the worst and enjoy the best
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Chapter 1: The Motorcycle Diarist

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Alberto Granado; police; doctors; poor people; Celia de la Serna; Guevara Lynch; Carlos Ferrer; night clubbers; Indian miners
Synopsis: Well-to-do Ernesto Guevara earns his M.D., careers around South America on a motorcycle, writes about his experiences, and enjoys the high life. But over time he becomes convicted by the horrible inequities that he observes.
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Chapter 2: The Plight of Latin America, 1953

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Juan Perón; Eva Perón; Carlos Ibáñez del Campo; Jorge Eliécer Gaitán; William Walker; Jorge Ubico; Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán; Carlos Castillo Armas
Synopsis: Reviews the condition of Latin American countries in 1953.
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Chapter 3: Back on the Road

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Carlos Ferrer [Calica]; Gualo García; Hilda Gadea; Jacobo Árbenz; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Mao Tse-Tung; Raúl Castro; Fidel Castro
Synopsis: The plight of poor people in Central America at last drives Che away from his hedonism, but he still pursues an essentially parasitic relationship with Hilda. He tries to fight in Honduras against a U.S.-backed coup. After meeting the Castro brothers he joins them as they sail for Cuba to foment revolution.
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Chapter 4: Cuba

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Raúl Castro; Fidel Castro; Herbert Matthews; Robert Taber; government soldiers; rebel soldiers; members of the Cuban Liberation Junta; Ovido Díaz Rodríguez; Aleida
Synopsis: After making his first kill, Che becomes an enthusiastic commander and rises high in the rebel ranks. With skillful military and propaganda advances, Fidel gains victory in Cuba.
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Chapter 5: Victory

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Raúl Castro; Fidel Castro; rebel soldiers; Aleida; Manuel Urrutia; Nikita Kruschev; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Synopsis: As Fidel takes power in Cuba, he downplays the radicals Che and Raúl in public, but quickly crushes dissent, subordinates power to himself, and publicly embraces Communism. Che receives honors and goes on a round-the-world mission. Eisenhower breaks off ties with Cuba.
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Chapter 6: Crisis After Crisis

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Fidel Castro; Nikita Kruschev; Alberto Granado; Richard Goodwin; John F. Kennedy; Cuban exiles; people of Cuba
Synopsis: Castro survives the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. But Che wants to export revolution, while Castro preaches peaceful coexistence.
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Chapter 7: The Revolutionary

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara]; Fidel Castro; people of Cuba; Simón Bolivár; José de San Martín; Eduardo Hughes; Malcolm X; Soviet leaders
Synopsis: Inspired by Bolivár and San Martín, Che meets anti-colonialist leaders, agitates for revolution in Latin America, and sharply rebukes Soviet leaders. Perhaps exasperated by his fractious follower, Fidel sends him to command Cuban guerrillas in the Congo.
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Chapter 8: The Congo Misadventure

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che] [Tato]; Fidel Castro; Papi Tamayo; Victor Dreke; Congolese rebels; Cuban soldiers; Osmany Cienfuegos; Larent Matoudidi; Moise Tshombe; Mike Hoare mercenaries
Synopsis: Congolese troops resent a white foreign leader, while their lackadaisical manners infuriate Che. Despite a peace settlement Che tries to continue the struggle but is hunted down by government troops until he flees across Lake Tanganyika, leaving many of his men behind to be captured or killed. He goes into hiding.
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Chapter 9: The Last Chapter

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Character(s): Ernesto Guevara de la Serna [Che Guevara] [Ramón] [Adolfo Mena González]; Aleida; Fidel Castro; Cuban guerrillas; Loro Vazquez-Viana; Mario Monje Molina; Bolivian soldiers; Bolivian guerrillas; René Barrientos; Ralph Shelton [Pappy Shelton]; Felix Rodríguez; Gustavo Villoldo
Synopsis: Castro sends Che to lead a rebellion in Bolivia. But the group is riven, and Bolivian Communist leaders reject him. Bolstered by C.I.A. personnel and anti-Castro Cuban exiles, the Bolivian army hunts Che down, destroys his detachment, and kills him.
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First Line: During his life and perhaps more since his death, Che Guevara has elicited controversy and diverse opinions of what he was and what he represented.
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First Line: Praise for Che: A Graphic Biography
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