Twenty years later, traveling as a radical journalist in a reactionary world, Cooper continues to chonicle, with biting humor and revealing detail, the events that make out headlines. In Roll Over Che Guevara, he takes us on a breakneck tour of the New World Order, including Pinochet's Chile, Nicaragua in the last hours of the Sandinistas, Soweto under siege, Panama still smoking after the US invasion, Baghdad bracing for the apocalypse, and into the new Moscow mafia. In the title piece, we meet up with Che Guevara's grandson and a new generation of Cuban youth still yearning for Che's ever-elusive promise of freedom.

The book's second half gives us a ground-level view of US society in decay. We fly in Bill Clinton's private campaign plane from New Hampshire to Georgia while the candidate shifts his image … even his accent … in the quest for votes. We are guided through America's cultural battleground, from Dan Quayle and his confrontation with Hollywood to the ambassadors from Armageddon who dominated the 1992 Republican convention. And when Cooper's hometown, Los Angeles, burns with a thousand fires of rage, he takes us to the very edge of history, describing America's war against itself.

Marc Cooper has received numerous journalism prizes for his writing and reporting which has appeared in publications ranging from the New Yorker and Harper's to Rolling Stone and Playboy to the Sunday magazines of the London Times and Los Angeles Times. For five years he served as staff writer for the Village Voice. Cooper has also produced and reported TV documentaries for CBS News, the Christian Science Monitor, and PBS Frontline. He is currently a contributing editor of the Nation magazine and host of its syndicated weekly show, Radio Nation.

“Wrenching . . . exemplary feature journalism.” — Washington Post

“If one of the hallmarks of a great foreign correspondent is an acute sense of observation for cultural peculiarities, then Cooper must be nonpareil.” -- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Cooper is a master practitioner. … San Francisco Review of Books

Whether Marc Cooper is writing about the U.S., Europe, or Latin America, he's one of the most knowledgeable and trenchant reporters in the business. Roll Over Che Guevara suggests he's also one of the most prescient. … Ross Thomas

As this collection testifies, Marc Cooper has actually long been one of America's most adventurously gifted guerrilla journalists. His reportage over the years on Cuba, for instance, has proven consistently discerning, sensitive and cracklingly alive to the actualities there. In fact, few journalists writing now are as ferociously smart and rich to read. … Marshall Frady, New Yorker