{"product_id":"i-embrace-you-with-all-my-revolutionary-fervor-isbn-9781644210956","title":"I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in \u003ci\u003eI Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967\u003c\/i\u003e range from letters home during his \u003ci\u003eMotorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, \u003ci\u003e\"When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father.\"\u003c\/i\u003eForeword: Reading My Father’s Letters by Aleida Guevara \u003cbr\u003eChe Guevara Biographical Note \u003cbr\u003eChronology of Che Guevara’s Life \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by the editors \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLETTERS FROM YOUTH (1947–1956)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Villa María), January 21, 1947 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Villa María), [late] 1947 \u003cbr\u003eTo AMERIMEX (from Buenos Aires), February 28, 1950 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (San Martín de los Andes), January 1952 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aunt Beatriz (from Iquitos, Peru), June 1, 1952 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Iquitos), June 4, 1952 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Bogotá), July 6, 1952 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from La Paz), July 24, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Cuzco), August 22, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Lima), September 3, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guayaquil), October 21, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aunt Beatriz (from San José de Costa Rica), December 10, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guatemala), December 28, 1953 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Guatemala), January 15, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aunt Beatriz (from Guatemala), February 12, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Guatemala), March 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guatemala), [late] April 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Zoraida Boluarte (from Guatemala), [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guatemala), April 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guatemala), June 20, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Guatemala), July 4, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), September 29, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), October 22, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), November 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), November 29, 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [late] 1954 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Mexico), [February or March], 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aunt Beatriz (from Mexico), April 9, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), April 10, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), May 9, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), May 16, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Father (from Mexico), May 27, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), June 17, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), July 20, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), September 24, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), September 24, 1955 99\u003cbr\u003eTo Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), October 8, 1955 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [February] 25, 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), March 1, 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), April 13, 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo my parents (from Mexico), July 6, 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [July] 15, 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [August or September], 1956 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [October 1956] \u003cbr\u003eTo Mother (from Mexico), [November 15,1956] \u003cbr\u003eTo Tita Infante (from Mexico), [November 1956] \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLETTERS FROM THE GUERRILLA WAR IN CUBA (1956–1959)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePart One: Letters from the Sierra Maestra\u003cbr\u003eTo Daniel, October 1, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo the Civic Institutions of Buey Arriba, October 12, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Mario, November 23, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Daniel, [December] 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Darío and Daniel, December 4, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Darío, December 30, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Daniel, December 30, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eTo Calixto, July 13, 1958 \u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Letters from the Camagüey plains and Las Villas province\u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, September 8, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, September 13, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTo Gómez [Raúl Castro], October 23, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, October 23, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, November 3, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTo the Provincial Leaders of the July 26 Movement in Las Villas, December 3, 1958 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLETTERS AS A LEADER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT (1959–1965)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 183\u003cbr\u003eTo Trapito [Víctor Trapote], January 12, 1959\u003cbr\u003eTo Juan Hehong Quintana, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Remberto Martínez Jiménez, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo José E. Martí Leyva, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo William Morris, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Pedro Revuelta, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Luis Paredes López, February 5, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Carlos Franqui, March 10, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Dr. Miguel Ángel Quevedo, May 23, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Valentina González Bravo, May 25, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Loreto Cabrera Cruz, May 27, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Pedro Revuelta, May 27, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo María Teresa Díaz Dicon, June 1, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo José Ricardo Gómez, June 7, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, June 22, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, June 27, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March (from India), June 30, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, July 12, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, August 6, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Company of International Airports S.A., November 30, 1959 \u003cbr\u003eTo Miguel Grau Triana, March 18, 1960 \u003cbr\u003eTo Ernesto Sábato, April 12, 1960 \u003cbr\u003eTo José Tiquet, May 17, 1960\u003cbr\u003eTo José R. Silva, July 5, 1960 \u003cbr\u003eTo Sr. Lorenzo Alujas, August 9, 1960 \u003cbr\u003eTo the General Administration of the Bank of China, October 15, 1960\u003cbr\u003eTo Gustavo Jiménez, December 30, 1960 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fernando Barral, February 15, 1961 \u003cbr\u003eTo Robert Starkie, June 12, 1961 \u003cbr\u003eTo Rolando Díaz Aztaraín, June 27, 1962 \u003cbr\u003eTo Laura Bergquist, October 15, 1962 \u003cbr\u003eTo Anna Louise Strong, November 19, 1962 \u003cbr\u003eTo Antonio Venturelli, November 19, 1962 \u003cbr\u003eTo Carlos Franqui, December 24, 1962 \u003cbr\u003eTo Nicolás Guillén, February 28, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Editorial Grijalbo, S.A., April 1, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Guillermo Lorentzen, May 4, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Peter Marucci, May 4, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida Coto Martínez, May 23, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo the compañeros of the motorcycle assembly plant, May 31, 1963\u003cbr\u003eTo Lisandro Otero, June 23, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Daniel Gispert, September 2, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo José Matar, September 19, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Manuel Navarro Luna, October 18, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Arturo Don Varona, October 28, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Pablo Díaz González, October 28, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, October 28, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Lydia Ares Rodríguez, October 30, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Lisandro Otero, November 10, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Juan Ángel Cardi, November 11, 1963 \u003cbr\u003eTo Oscar L. Torras de la Luz, January 3, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Regino G. Boti, February 2, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Charles Bettelheim, February 6, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Josefina Cabrera, February 11, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo María Rosario Guevara, February 20, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Luis Amado Blanco, February 25, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo José Medero Mestre, February 26, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Luis Corvea, March 14, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Eduardo B. Ordaz, May 26, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Leo Huberman y Paul M. Sweezy, June 12, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Ezequiel Vieta, June 16, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fabio Vargas Vivanco, June 16, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Regino G. Boti, June 17, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo the Cuban Trading Company of Works of Art and Culture, June 25, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Hubert Jacob, June 30, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Santiago Morciego y Manuel Hernández, July 3, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo León Felipe, August 21, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Elías Entralgo, August 31, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Juana Rosa Jiménez, September 11, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Julio González Noriega, September 15, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Pedro Pérez Vega, September 23, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Manuel Moreno Fraginals, October 6, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Charles Bettelheim, October 24, 1964 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, March 26, 1965 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLETTERS FROM AFAR: The Congo and Bolivia (1965–1967)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo my children, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo my parents, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, [1965] \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro, April 1, 1965 \u003cbr\u003eTo Fidel Castro (from the Congo), October 5, 1965 \u003cbr\u003eTo Armando Hart, December 4, 1965 \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March (from the Congo) [no date] \u003cbr\u003eTo Hilda Beatriz Guevara Gadea, February 15, 1966 \u003cbr\u003eTo Haydée Santamaría, [1966] \u003cbr\u003eTo Aleida March (from Bolivia), December 1966 \u003cbr\u003eTo my children (from Bolivia), 1966 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAPPENDICES: Letters written to Che Guevara \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Juan Almeida to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 20, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eFrom Celia Sánchez to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 13, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eFrom Armando Hart to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 25, 1957 \u003cbr\u003eFrom Camilo Cienfuegos to Che, April 24, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eFrom Fidel Castro, “To the Rebels of Las Villas,” (Sierra Maestra) October 2, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eFrom Lidia Doce to Che, [no date] \u003cbr\u003eFrom Raúl Roa to Che, (Havana) December 19, 1963 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFURTHER READING: Books by Che Guevara \u003c\/b\u003e\"Arrogant, affectionate, and dogmatic, Guevara (1928–1967) is intimately revealed in this compilation of personal letters sent over the latter half of his extraordinary life. In the introduction, his daughter, Aleida Guevara, writes that unlike his meticulously planned fiery speeches, Che was more open in correspondence with friends and family. Spanning 20 years, these letters reflect that earnestness, following him from his teenage years to his impassioned farewells to those he left behind in Cuba just days before he was killed in 1967. He dutifully updates his mother on his health, teases a favorite aunt, and berates his wife, all while bearing a Zelig-like witness to the hemisphere’s defining political upheavals. His missives don’t mince words, either, especially when it comes to criticizing the government apparatus that followed the guerilla victory led by himself and Fidel Castro. In one letter—written just before he leaves Cuba in 1965 to fight for socialism in Africa—Che outlines to Castro the multiple problems he perceives with the state’s transition to socialism, surmising 'everyone involved in the management of the national economy... feels very disillusioned.' \u003cb\u003eThis offers a thrilling, eyewitness account of battles whose repercussions still reverberate today\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928, and killed on October 9, 1967, the short life of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is that of one of the greatest and most enduring revolutionary figures of all time, named one of Time magazine's \"icons of the 20th century.\" He was politicized first-hand during his travels as a young man around Latin America, and especially by witnessing the CIA-backed overthrow of the elected government of Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 in Guatemala. He sought out a group of Cuban revolutionaries exiled in Mexico City. And, in July 1955, immediately after meeting their leader Fidel Castro, enlisted in their expedition to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Cubans nicknamed him \"Che,\" a popular form of address in Argentina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four years later, after a fierce revolutionary struggle, General Batista fled on January 1, 1959, and Che became a key leader in the new revolutionary government. Che was also the main representative of the Cuban revolutionary government around the world, heading numerous delegations to Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States. Beginning in 1965, Che lead two Cuban missions to support revolutionary struggles elsewhere in the world, first in Congo and then in Bolivia. Both of these interventions failed, and Che's accounts of these struggles in Congo Diary and The Bolivian Diary show the lessons learned and the humility and fierce intelligence with which Che approached every revolutionary struggle.\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErnesto Che Guevara \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetters often reveal the innermost thoughts and emotions of a writer, an intellectual or artist, or, in this case, a revolutionary, who had both an outstanding intellect and a brilliant pen. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna — or “Che” as the world came to know him — was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are those of a master narrator, characterized by a brutal honesty, a remarkable lack of ego, a razor-sharp wit, an iron will and a great capacity to express his love and affection for his closest friends and family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than 80 percent of the letters in this selection of Che Guevara’s correspondence have never previously been translated and published in English. Beginning with the letters young Ernesto penned in his early travels around Latin America as a medical student, the reader can observe how he polished his unique style over the years. And as Ernesto is transformed into “Che” (a common way Argentines refer to themselves and are referred to by others), a dedicated revolutionary and original political thinker emerges from the wide-eyed young Argentine who set out to discover Latin America. “Each one of us is the architect of a new type of human being,” wrote Che years later, “for the new society we seek to create,” and it is that process of becoming or transformation that the reader can witness here in his letters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough he was never a student radical during his time at university, by 1954 he is writing to his mother from Guatemala, saying: “the Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I could have imagined. I think I have really come to understand it and I feel [Latin] American, which means having a character distinct from all other peoples on the earth.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlways an uncompromising seeker of the truth, committed only to what he described as “the sacred cause of the liberation of humanity,” in one of his last letters to his young children, Che advised them to “always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis final letters to his partner Aleida, his children and Fidel Castro are both nostalgic and wistful, while also reiterating his unwavering commitment to his ideals. “Many will call me an adventurer,” Che wrote to his parents before leaving Cuba in 1966 on his fateful mission in Bolivia, “and that I am, only one of a different sort: one who risks his neck to prove his truths.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Che’s daughter Aleida comments: “When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don’t worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That’s what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was. This is the true political testimony of my father.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few of these letters are well known, but most have only now been released from Che Guevara’s personal archive held at the Che Guevara Studies Center in Havana, directed by his widow Aleida March, and are published in English for the first time. This selection, compiled chronologically, presents letters from different moments of Che’s life, offering a new and intimate insight into the motivation, emotions and actions of an extraordinary human being. Living only 39 years, Che had an impact on our lives and dreams as few have had in all of human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaría del Carmen Ariet Garcia","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301160964325,"sku":"NP9781644210956","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644210956.jpg?v=1767729635","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-embrace-you-with-all-my-revolutionary-fervor-isbn-9781644210956","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}