Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America - Hardcover

Krauze, Enrique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066214734 ISBN 13: 9780066214733

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011

Synopsis

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, José Vasconcelos toHugo Chávez, and inscribing them upon a vivid landscape of patriotism,opportunism, morality, and avarice—and of love, honor, loyalty, and identity. Redeemersdelivers an unparalleled explication of the roots of ideology and action inLatin America today.

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Redeemers An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis 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 Richar Full description

Review:

"Highly readable. . . . An important book."--"The Tuscon Citizen"

""Redeemers" is a fundamental work for our time. . . . All the chapters are written with fluid movement, intelligent precision, and felicitous language. You read them with the expectation and excitement offered by the best novels."--Mario Vargas Llosa, "El Pa?s"

Highly readable. . . . An important book. --"The Tuscon Citizen""

"Redeemers" is a fundamental work for our time. . . . All the chapters are written with fluid movement, intelligent precision, and felicitous language. You read them with the expectation and excitement offered by the best novels. --Mario Vargas Llosa, "El Pa?s""

An ambitious attempt to trace the interaction of ideas and power in Hispanic America. --The Wall Street Journal"

Krauze is marked by a rare and attractive gift for noticing the several ways that, under the bright sun of the imagination, and kingdom of politics and the kingdom of literature sometimes merge. --Paul Berman, The New York Times Book Review"

Erudite and wise. . . . A magisterial history of the ideas, books and politics that shaped modern Latin America, from 19th-century liberalism to revolutionary commitments and back again towards modern, more democratic versions of liberal thought. --The Financial Times"

An engaging mixture of biography and historical currents in the style of Isaiah Berlin or Edmund Wilson, thus allowing lay readers to follow what can sometimes be a dizzying succession of revolutions, doctrine and caudillos. --Kirkus Reviews"

Krauze illuminates Latin American thought and politics in a vibrant and invaluable blend of biography and analysis. . . . Redeemers provides discerning and much-needed insight into our dynamic neighbors. --Booklist"

Highly readable. . . . An important book. --The Tuscon Citizen"

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0066214734
• ISBN 13: 9780066214733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 538