Diarios de motocicleta. Notas de viaje por Amйrica latina
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Edición ampliada y corregida con Prefacio de Aleida Guevara March.
El origen de Notas de viaje es el diario que redactó Ernesto 'Che' Guevara cuando en diciembre de 1951, a la edad de veinitrés años, decidió emprender un largo recorrido en moto por América Latina con su amigo Alberto Granado. Juntos, decidieron empezar su ruta en la provincia de Córdoba para recorrer la Argentina y continuar su viaje por Chile, Perú, Colombia y Venezuela. El Che acabó su viaje solo --tras ocho meses de periplo-- cuando consiguió volver desde Miami hasta Buenos Aires para poner fin a lo que, sin duda, fue una gran aventura.
"Todo lo trascendente de nuestra empresa se nos escapaba en ese momento, sólo veíamos el polvo del camino y nosotros devorando kilómetros en la fuga hacia el norte..."
---Ernesto Che Guevara
La Poderosa II parecía un enorme animal o una visión extraterrestre, flanqueada por dos bolsos de lona impermeable y en la parte posterior un sobrecargado portaequipaje. Los dos jóvenes argentinos estaban listos para la aventura, para su "vagar sin rumbo por nuestra Mayúscula América". El viaje comenzó...
Un muy joven Ernesto Guevara, realiza un viaje por América Latina junto a su amigo Alberto Granados, parten de Argentina y se enfrenta a aventuras y realidades que lo transformaran para siempre. Ernesto va en busca de sí mismo, del sentido de su vida. Una etapa trascendental en la formación del futuro Che.
Esta nueva edici&iocute;n inlcuye fotografías inéditas tomadas por Ernesto "Che" Guevara a los 23 años, durante su travesía por América del sur, y es presentada con un tierno prefacio de Aleida Guevara, quien ofrece una perspectiva distinta de su padre, el hombre y el ícono de millones de personas.
What People Are Saying
Nuestro film es sobre un hombre joven, el Che, lleno de amor por el continente y buscando su lugar en él.
---Walter Salles, director de la película Diarios de motocicleta (productor ejecutivo: Robert Redford / protagonistas: Gael García Bernal y Rodrigo de la Serna).
Book review: Mr Adams Last Crusade or Spanking the Donkey
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
Author: Richard D Whit
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Long did more good for the state’s poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory.
White taps invaluable new source material to present a fresh, vivid portrait of both the man and the Depression era that catapulted him to fame. From his boyhood in dirt-poor Winn Parish, Long knew he was destined for power–the problem was how to get it fast enough to satisfy his insatiable appetite. With cunning and crudity unheard of in Louisiana politics, Long crushed his opponents in the 1928 gubernatorial race, then immediately set about tightening his iron grip. The press attacked him viciously, the oil companies howled for his blood after he pushed through a controversial oil processing tax, but Long had the adulation of the people. In 1930, the Kingfish got himself elected senator, and then there was no stopping him.
White’s account of Long’s heyday unfolds with the mesmerizing intensity of a movie. Pegged by President Roosevelt as “one of the two most dangerous men in the country,” Long organized a radical movement to redistribute money through his Share OurWealth Society–and his gospel of pensions for all, a shorter workweek, and free college spread like wildfire. The Louisiana poor already worshiped him for building thousands of miles of roads and funding schools, hospitals, and universities; his outrageous antics on the Senate floor gained him a growing national base. By 1935, despite a barrage of corruption investigations, Huey Long announced that he was running for president.
In the end, Long was a tragic hero–a power addict who squandered his genius and came close to destroying the very foundation of democratic rule. Kingfish is a balanced, lucid, and absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life and times of the most incendiary figure in the history of American politics.
The New York Times - David Oshinsky
Kingfish," by Richard D. White Jr., who teaches public administration at Louisiana State University, is a faithful retelling of a familiar story. White highlights the vulgar outbursts, bloody fistfights and snake-oil salesmanship that defined "the reign of Huey P. Long."
Publishers Weekly
The inspiration for Robert Penn Warren's demagogue in All the King's Men, Huey Long was Louisiana's governor, then U.S. senator and controlled virtually every aspect of the state government from 1929 until he was shot to death in 1935 at age 42. Long used the same skills he had honed as a charming traveling salesman for a lard substitute to appeal directly to potential voters and bypass the powerful political bosses. He filled the ranks of government employees with his own supporters, shamelessly appointing his brother as a tax collector even though he had promised to abolish the post and use the money for a TB hospital. Long may have started out as a populist with the admirable goal of providing free textbooks to schoolchildren, but squandering resources and lining his own pockets, he created Louisiana's first income tax.. Supposedly pro-labor, Long put the kibosh on pensions, unemployment insurance and a minimum wage. Crude and vindictive, Long had his eye on the presidency, influenced an Arkansas U.S. senate race and may have been killed by a "trigger-happy" bodyguard aiming at an attacker and not by an assassin's gun. LSU professor White's (Roosevelt the Reformer, etc.) latest is lively and well researched but isn't as groundbreaking as the biography by William Ivy Hair or as authoritative as Pulitzer-winner T. Harry Williams's. 16 pages of photos not seen by PW. (On sale Apr. 4) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
FDR considered Louisiana's Huey P. Long (1893-1935) one of the most dangerous men in America. Novelist Robert Penn Warren captured the essence of Long's Southern demagoguery in All the King's Men. Now, for the first time, a political scientist (public administration, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge; Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner) has plunged into dissecting Long's political career. White focuses on how the bright and ruthless Long acquired dictatorial power during his years as governor and U.S. senator (1928-35). He provided textbooks, charity hospitals, and paved roads to those who had been largely ignored since the Civil War-rural farmers-while effectively destroying the opposition. Readers have had three main options from historians: T. Harry Williams's favorable Huey Long (a 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner), the brief and negative view of Glen Jeansonne's Messiah of the Masses, and the attempt at historical balance in William Ivy Hair's The Kingfish and His Realm. Political buffs will delight in White's readable account even if it shortchanges the economic and social conditions that made Long virtually inevitable. Nonetheless, the rise of demagogues abroad suggests this book's importance. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.-William D. Pederson, Louisiana State Univ., Shreveport Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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