{"product_id":"i-embrace-you-with-all-my-revolutionary-fervor-isbn-9781644212448","title":"I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor","description":"\u003cb\u003eCollected for the first time, here are Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience.\" —Ariel Dorfman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected here range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959, 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 guerilla 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, \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book is available in a Spanish language edition, \u003ci\u003eTe abraza con todo fervor revolucionario\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Che is not only an intellectual, he was the most complete human being of our age.\" —Jean Paul Sartre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these present times, when for many ethics and other profound moral values are seen to be so easily bought and sold, the example of Che Guevara takes on an even greater dimension.\" —Rigoberta MenchuForeword: 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“Of its contents, 80 percent has never beenavailable before. Deftly edited by Havana scholars María del Carmen Ariet García and Disamis Arcia Muñoz, the letters in I Embrace You are a newly available revelation. To read them is to discover his humor, his courage, his frankness, his odd blend of arrogance and generosity, his wanderlust and his idealism, his willingness to subsume himself in the cause of freedom for the poor in Cuba, in Congo, and in Bolivia. . . . In his sharp, clear, witty prose, you discover his irony, his love of poetry, his smooth shifts among registers— a writerly ease stemming from years ofreading world literature.”\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003eJoy Castro\u003c\/b\u003e in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\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\u003eFour 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.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300810608869,"sku":"NP9781644212448","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644212448.jpg?v=1767729633","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-embrace-you-with-all-my-revolutionary-fervor-isbn-9781644212448","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}