Used. Paperback. Before he was posthumously reduced to a dormitory wall decoration, Ernesto "Ché" Guevara was a stethoscope-toting Argentine medic turned relentless revolutionary mastermind. Biographer Daniel James cuts straight through the partisan propaganda, tracing how a bookish boy was molded by maternal politics and swiftly radicalized across the rugged terrain of Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia. Rather than settling for romanticized hagiography, James wields an unsparing scalpel to examine the rebel leader’s dogmatic zeal, ideological fervor, and the fraught campaigns that defined his turbulent career. It is an incisive, richly sourced character study of a complicated icon that refuses to let the man off the hook for the myth he manufactured.