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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution by Lars Schoultz Publisher Comments Cuba has regularly given Washington a headache, Lars Schoultz observes in his comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Seeking relief, even the most patient U.S. officials have often been tempted to repeat what an exasperated... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista #11: A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky Publisher Comments Few historical events are as little understood -- or continue to stir such emotions -- as the revolution guided by Fidel Castro that overthrew the Batista government of Cuba in 1959. A History of the Cuban Revolution journeys beyond the fiery political... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment by Samuel Farber Publisher Comments Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From Americas number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba weve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth centurys wiliest political survivor and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.74 Used - Trade Paper
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The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Guevara Publisher Comments Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, an essential player in the Cuban Revolution whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood by Pablo Medina Publisher Comments A happy, middle-class childhood lived in the shadows of sweeping social change and oncoming revolution -- such was the experience of novelist Pablo Medina. In this memoir, Medina revisits his curious double world, recalling the pre-revolutionary Cuba of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine by Brian Latell Publisher Comments In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island by Lea Aschkenas Publisher Comments This poignant and passionate travel memoir is about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments In his 2003 National Book Award-winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Che for Beginners by Sergio Sinay Publisher Comments Che for Beginners recounts the life of this Argentinean doctor and self-proclaimed "Latin American patriot." Che Guevara for Beginners is the ideal choice not only to satisfy curiosity, but to reveal Che's importance. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments National Book Award-winning memoir of exile from a tangerine-colored paradise: “Eire has done a splendid job….Masterfully written, bursting with wonderful details and images and populated by characters so well described that they seem to be... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone Publisher Comments "Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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This Is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives by Ben Corbett Publisher Comments Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America by Ernesto Guevara Review "One thing not expected from youth is consistency. Some passages read like those my own wandering son sent back from Peru, along the lines of 'our vocation, our true vocation, was to roam the highways and the waterways of the world forever.' Phrases in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments "Should be on the required reading lists of the Chiefs of Staff and (the President's) advisers." --"The Western Political Quarterly Startlingly relevant to our own time, Che's essays in this manifesto on asymmetrical warfare established the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-In) by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Angel Esteban Publisher Comments Few contemporary writers are more revered by Americans than Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. And few political leaders are more reviled than Fidel Castro. Yet these... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara by Aleida March Publisher Comments For the first time, Aleida March evokes the memories of her partner, Ernesto Che Guevara. She describes their great romance and life together from the days when they first met as fellow guerrillas in Cuba's revolutionary war up to the tragic moment when... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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