HEROIC MEXICO

by William Weber Johnson ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 5, 1968

Mexico's turbulent revolution is revisited in this splendid book--another in the Mainstream of the Modern World Series, edited by John Gunther. The book is a fine companion to Alan Lloyd's The Spanish Centuries. The story of Mexico's epic social upheaval is a difficult one to tell, filled as it is with massive bloodshed, protracted conflict, endless parturition of new leadership, and the unleashing of all the deadly sins. A better Mexico emerged out of the old order but the wreckage of a nation and the decimation of a population took a generation to repair. The villains, led by Victoriano Huerta, are arrayed against a clutch of disputatious, often self-serving and frequently ill-mannered heroes who fulfilled the wildest definition of the Latin American concept of personalismo, Madero, Carranza, Villa, Obregon--these are the names that dominate the narrative of this important study of a national experience that a present-day Mexican politican forgets only at his peril---one that has provided Mexican culture with an overwhelming motif.

Pub Date: April 5, 1968

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION