Radical chic chic hits country," Roland Nethaway compared libertarians to "John Wayne on steroids," writing they were "anti-government before anti-government was cool". In a 2013 Reuters article, Nicholas Wapshott used the term to describe those who use radical statements to add a "dangerous edge to their otherwise humdrum personas." Los Angeles Times journalist suggested that Alberto Korda's iconic March 1960 photograph of revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is possibly "the most-reproduced photograph in the world," a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. Shortly after the October 17, 1997 burial with military honors in Santa Clara, Cuba of Guevara's
Michael Korda novel "Queenie", which is a roman à clef about his aunt, actress Merle Oberon, which was later adapted into a television miniseries. Korda said he felt that "Charmed Lives" was the book he was born to write, "as if I had been observing and storing up memories with just that purpose in mind for years." Beginning in the 2000s, Korda wrote a number of history and biography books on the Hungarian Revolution, Dwight Eisenhower, T.E. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. On writing histories Korda said, "I've always wanted to write history, and it was only the accident of going to