Liberators, patriots, and leaders of Latin America
Subtitle: 32 biographies
By: Jerome R. Adams.
Contributors: Adams, Jerome R., 1938-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780786442843
Subjects: Heads of state -- Latin America -- Biography; Politicians -- Latin America -- Biography; Revolutionaries -- Latin America -- Biography; Heroes -- Latin America -- Biography; Patriotism -- Latin America -- History; Leadership -- Latin America -- History; Latin America -- Biography; Latin America -- Politics and government
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Doña Marina (La Malinche) : mother of conquest; title: Pierre François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture : commander of a slave army; title: Simón Bolívar : liberator of the North; title: Manuela Sáenz : spirit of the liberation; title: José de San Martín : liberator of the South; title: Bernardo O'Higgins : Chile's Irish liberator; title: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento : educator of a continent; title: Pedro I and Pedro II, Brazil's emperors : divine right and democracy; title: José Martí : revolutionary poet; title: Benito Juárez : builder of democracy; title: Pancho Villa : political warrior; title: Emiliano Zapata : Indian reformer; title: Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza, and Hermila Galindo de Topete : women of the Mexican Revolution; title: Augusto Sandino : the visionary versus the Marines; title: Juan Perón : monarch of the working class; title: María Eva Duarte de Perón : angel of the "shirtless ones"; title: José Figueres : at the center of Latin America; title: Fidel Castro : socialist revolutionary; title: Ernesto "Che" Guevera : existential rebel; title: Bishop Romero : modern martyr; title: Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet : Ariel and Caliban; title: César Chávez : Hispanic Spartacus; title: Vicente Fox : breaking the political mold; title: Néstor Kirchner Ostoic and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner : Peronist pair; title: Daniel Ortega Saavedra : Sandino redux; title: Luís Inácio Lula da Silva : Brazil's diminutive giant; title: Hugo Chávez : elected leftist.