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'Che' Graphic Biography Explores The Myths And Truths Of The Legend
If there's one defining characteristic of political discourse in our era, it's that the truth is swamped by myth.
Made-up stories saturate social, and other, media — and real journalism is falsely targeted with chants of "fake news."
So it's the perfect moment to reflect on Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the veritable embodiment of the power of myth to eclipse reality.
More than 20 years ago, Jon Lee Anderson set out to disentangle the revolutionary's real history from his legend.
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The result was the critically acclaimed biography Che: A Revolutionary Life. Now, in partnership with award-winning political cartoonist José Hernández, Anderson has adapted Che into a 421-page illustrated biography.
Anderson takes on a particularly unwieldy subject in Guevara. Even writers who criticize the Che myth are irresistibly drawn to focus on it — to point out that the most famous image of Guevara was shot by a fashio