13 Best biography books like Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

Cover of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

By: Jon Lee Anderson

3.73

Format: None pages,

From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi…

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Cover of My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro

1. My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

By: Ignacio Ramonet , Fidel Castro

4.20

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

Based on over 100 hours of interviews with Fidel Castro conducted over three years, Fidel Castro: M… read more

Similar categories in Ignacio Ramonet's My Life: A Spoken Autobiography book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The historical lesson is that a revolutionary party can carry out tactical movements, but it mustn't commit strategic errors."

-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

"...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing."

-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

"Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world."

-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Cover of Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara, Brian Loveman, None, Thomas M. Davies Jr.

2. Guerrilla Warfare

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Brian Loveman , None , Thomas M. Davies Jr.

3.75

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

English, Spanish (translation) read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nigger by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte

3. Nigger

By: Dick Gregory , Robert Lipsyte

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room ton… read more

Similar categories in Dick Gregory's Nigger book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

4. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

5. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

By: Jon Lee Anderson

3.73

Format: None pages,

From the back of the book: "Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the defi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962) by Nelson Mandela

6. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962) book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Cover of Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

Similar categories in Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Cover of The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara March

9. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by William L. Simon, Jeffrey S. Young

10. iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

By: William L. Simon , Jeffrey S. Young

3.50

Format: None pages,

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs… read more

Similar categories in William L. Simon's iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by George Breitman, Malcolm X

11. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

By: George Breitman , Malcolm X

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life.… read more

Similar categories in George Breitman's Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Life by Bill Clinton

12. My Life

By: Bill Clinton

3.74

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the f… read more

Similar categories in Bill Clinton's My Life book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator …"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh j…"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

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13. Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

4.19

Format: 714 pages, Paperback

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more

Similar categories in David Herbert Donald's Lincoln book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

14. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more

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Cover of A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.

15. A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.30

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Chr… read more

Similar categories in Ronald C. White Jr.'s A. Lincoln book and Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

16. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World

By: Louis Fischer

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph ov… read more

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17. Einstein: The Life and Times

By: Ronald William Clark

3.89

Format: None pages,

THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY Albert Einstein was far more than the physicist who confidently claimed th… read more

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18. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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19. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By: Manning Marable

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the def… read more

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20. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

By: Barack Obama

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more

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21. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

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13 best-selling history books like Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

Transform Your Habits

My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Ignacio Ramonet , Fidel Castro

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Guerrilla Warfare

Ernesto Che Guevara , Brian Loveman , None , Thomas M. Davies Jr.

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Nigger

Dick Gregory , Robert Lipsyte

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

3.78

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Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson , H. Khalif Khalifah

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

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