{"id":44546,"date":"2018-10-12T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44546"},"modified":"2019-07-04T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T15:01:33","slug":"che-revolutionary-life-graphic-biography-by-jon-lee-anderson-illustrated-by-jose-hernandez-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/che-revolutionary-life-graphic-biography-by-jon-lee-anderson-illustrated-by-jose-hernandez-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Che: A Revolutionary Life |  A Graphic Biography by Jon Lee Anderson, illustrated by Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-44514 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/Che-Jon-Lee-Anderson-Jose-Hernandez-BookDragon-577x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/Che-Jon-Lee-Anderson-Jose-Hernandez-BookDragon-577x800.jpg 577w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/Che-Jon-Lee-Anderson-Jose-Hernandez-BookDragon.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonleeanderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jon Lee Anderson<\/a>\u2019s <em>Che: A Revolutionary Life\u200b<\/em> (1997) is superbly realized in graphic form by Mexican artist Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, who distills Anderson\u2019s lauded, 812-page original into just more than 400 pages of spectacularly illustrated narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Since his 1967 death at 39, Che \u201chas become the most recognized human image in the world,\u201d Anderson writes in his introduction, fueled by Alberto Korda\u2019s iconic photograph. Between Che\u2019s \u201ccrassly commercial\u201d ubiquity \u2013 on posters, energy drinks, even diapers \u2013 and his \u201cauthentically mythological\u201d cult status, Anderson attempts to \u201cconvey . . . who Che had really been in life.\u201d From his comfortable Argentine birth, medical training, and peripatetic commitment to fighting capitalist U.S. imperialism to his assassination (Anderson\u2019s reporting led to the recovery of Che\u2019s remains in 1997), Anderson and Hern\u00e1ndez turn myth into man.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting \u201ca generation more used to expressing resistance with a click on their iPhones than taking to the streets,\u201d author and artist deftly balance Che\u2019s revolutionary idealism with his failures in leadership, his arrogance, his familial inadequacies. Affecting moments are many, including even the origin story of Che\u2019s emblematic beret.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Che-Jon-Lee-Anderson\/pid=9708917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction: Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lee Anderson\u2019s Che: A Revolutionary Life\u200b (1997) is superbly realized in graphic form by Mexican artist Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, who distills Anderson\u2019s lauded, 812-page original into just more than 400 pages of spectacularly illustrated narrative. 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