Voces de la esperanza

Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's...

"Aprendí que no se puede dar marcha atrás, que la esencia de la vida es ir hacia delante. La vida, en realidad, es una calle de sentido único", escribió Agatha Christie sobre ella. Nacida cuando la emancipación de la mujer aún parecía lejana, la escritora inglesa fue un espíritu libre. Hecha a sí misma, movida por su tenacidad y con una curiosidad sin límites, con las convenciones sociales para vivir experiencias solo reservadas a los hombres. Vivencias —algunas extraordinarias, pero también las dolorosas— que se convertirían en el motor de su obra y la llevarían a ser la...

Biografía de José Ber Gelbard, último ministro de economía de Perón y el representante más fuerte del sector económico identificado con la industria nacional.

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...