The dictator's seduction
Subtitle: politics and the popular imagination in the era of Trujillo
By: Lauren Derby.
Series: American encounters/global interactions; American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780822344865; 9780822344827
Subjects: Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, -- 1891-1961; Dominican Republic -- Social conditions; Dominican Republic -- Politics and government -- 1930-1961; Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922; title: San Zenon and the making of Ciudad Trujillo; title: The master of ceremonies; title: Compatriotas! el jefe calls; title: Clothes make the man; title: Trujillo's two bodies; title: Papa Liborio and the morality of rule; title: Charisma and the gift of recognition.