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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: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T. J. English Publisher Comments To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles Lucky Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob--with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Take Me with You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba by Carlos Frias Publisher Comments Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge G Castaneda Publisher Comments Drawing on archival documents from two continents and on interviews with Che Guevara's family and associates, one of Latin America's foremost political scientists gives us our finest biography yet of the man who became synonymous with the insurrectionist... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che: A Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson Publisher Comments A symbol of counterculture worldwide, Ernesto “Che” Guevara is one of the most, if not the most, recognizable and influential revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. From the pages of history textbooks to silk-screened T-shirts at... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution by Daniel Erikson Publisher Comments Terrific background, keen insight and an evenhanded critical distance distinguish Erikson's fine work.--Kirkus Reviews There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate--and as dysfunctional--as that of the United States and Cuba. In... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - 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-year-old... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary by Hilda Gadea Publisher Comments Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the political icon, romantic wanderer, philosopher, doting suitor, and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground by Peter Moruzzi Publisher Comments Through vintage and contemporary photographs, brochures, postcards, and artifacts evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro tells the story of the city that was the most popular exotic destination for Americans during the forty years between... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Fidel Castro: The Declarations of Havana (Revolutions) by Fidel Castro Publisher Comments In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro by Anne Bardach Publisher Comments Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage Originals) by Michael Casey Publisher Comments In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro Publisher Comments Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission by Richard L Harris Publisher Comments This new edition coincides with the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death and the 80th anniversary of his birth. Updated with a new epilogue. Richard L. Harris includes in this updated edition of Death of a Revolutionary new revelations about Che's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cuba & the United States 2ND Edition by Louis A Perez Synopsis Ties of Singular Intimacy The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Perez Jr. "the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English; " In this new edition of his acclaimed 1990 volume, he brings his expertise to bear on the history and direction of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary by Hilda Gadea Publisher Comments Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments An award-winning journalist and leading authority on Cuba, Bardach explores the key issues surrounding Castro's long farewell from the world... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments These features, which are fully complemented with posters, intimate photographs and other ephemera, will ensure that this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this enduring icon, and the legacy he left behind.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.97 Sale - Hardcover
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