Jon Lee Anderson, Author . Penguin Press $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59420-034-2
New Yorker
writer Anderson's eyewitness account of the invasion of Baghdad is a thoughtful document of war, written with stunning precision. Anderson arrived in Baghdad during the eerie calm before air strikes began in March 2003. While...
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Jon Lee Anderson, Author Crown Publishers $22 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8129-2085-7
In this absorbing, instructive survey, Anderson, coauthor of War Zone, looks at five groups which ``faithfully represent'' the modern guerrilla: the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, the Frente Farabundo...
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Jon Lee Anderson, Author Grove/Atlantic $35 (832p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1600-0
At 25 (in 1953), Ernesto Guevara de la Serna received his medical degree in Argentina. A conventional career lay ahead if he wanted it. At 39, captured in a quixotic, doomed guerrilla operation in the Bolivian outback unenthusiastically financed by...
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Jon Lee Anderson, Author, Armando Durn, Read by , read by Armando Duran. Blackstone Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-7066-6
The incredible life of the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is documented in this thorough, compulsively engaging 1997 biography and inspiration for Steven Soderbergh's 2008 biopic. Beginning with Che's childhood in...
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Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández, trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. Penguin Press, $35 (421p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2177-2
A cinematic approach chips away at the myths and misunderstandings that still surround the life of Che Guevara, the famed doctor turned revolutionary, in this in-depth graphic novel adaptation of Anderson’s exhaustive biography. Che is fleshed out...
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Jon Lee Anderson. Penguin Press, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-49309-0
In this collection of his New Yorker dispatches from Afghanistan, Anderson (The Fall of Baghdad) narrates in vivid detail how America’s longest war became a bloody quagmire. His pieces cover the conflict’s 20-year arc, beginning with the 2001...
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