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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Friedrich Katz. Stanford University Press, $90 (1032pp) ISBN 978-0-8047-3045-7
What this immense biography paradoxically proves is that it takes a major figure of major accomplishment to sustain a narrative of such length. The legendary Pancho Villa could barely sustain such tonnage; the real one--a slippery, semi-literate, largely nonpolitical outlaw whose opportunities on the national stage were inglorious and brief--can't. Katz, a University of Chicago professor of Latin American history and author of The Secret War in Mexico, has extracted every milligram of fact to weigh against the legendary life. Villa emerges as one thuggish upstart among many, who happened to enter American consciousness by invading a sliver (Columbus, N.Mex.) of the lower 48--the only time that had happened since the War of 1812--and afforded Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing the opportunity for an inconsequential but romanticized ""Punitive Expedition."" Although a charismatic leader, Villa did not make much of his (brief) control of revolutionary Chihuahua, and, in fact, the scourge of the landowner class ended his life as a hacendado. Bought off with someone else's confiscated land in 1920, he lived on this once grand estate of 163,000 acres until assassins got him
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Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa is probably one of the best-known figures in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. This study of Villa aims to separate myth from history.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Stanford University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 1004
- ISBN
- 9780804730464
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Om forfatteren
Friedrich Katz is Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nine books on Mexican history.
Anmeldelser
«Friedrich Katz's The Life and Times of Pancho Villa is a masterpiece of contemporary historiography. . . . Diligent, extremely well-documented, fluid and elegant at all times, Friederich Katz presents Mexicans with our ghosts—alive.»
Carlos Fuentes<br /> <I>Los Angeles Times Book Review</I>
"A splendid work that can be enjoyed by the general reader and by scholars of the period on both sides of the border." —The Journal of American History
«A "Best Book of 1998" Library Journal selection"This is the definitive work on Mexican revolutionary Pancho