Redeemers

An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkers Inhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power , awork which the Wall Street Journal calls "the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico," prize-winning author Enrique Krauzeilluminates the evolution of political, social, and philosophical discourses inLatin America. With echoes of Richard Hofstadter and Edmund Wilson, Krauze explores the Latin American intellectual traditionby deftly animating its decisive figures, from Octavio Paz to Che Guevara, Jose Vasconcelos toHugo Chavez, and inscribing them upon a vivid landscape of patriotism,opportunism, morality, and avarice--and of love, honor, loyalty, and identity. Redeemers delivers an unparalleled explication of the roots of ideology and action inLatin America today.>

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Krauze
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2011
• EAN: 9780066214733
• ISBN: 978-0-06-621473-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Mexico, Poetry, Memoirs, Caribbean islands, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, The Americas, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, HISTORY: Latin America / Mexico, HISTORY: Latin America / General, HISTORY: LATIN AMERICAN, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Essays, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY: Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE: World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY: Caribbean & West Indies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, History / Latin American