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Forging Latin America

Profiles in Power and Ideas, 1492 to Today
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A sweeping yet intimate exploration of Latin America's political history, Forging Latin America profiles fifty-two of the region's most influential figures who, for better or worse, have shaped its character and destiny from the Spanish Conquest to the present day. This polyphonic gathering of dictators, reformers, revolutionaries, artists, writers, priests, and activists not only foregrounds the major political developments since 1492 but also spotlights lesser-known stories of hope, change, and resistance from the ground up. Along the way, the book shows how ideas can bring down a government or build one, how power corrodes ideology until the perpetuation of power becomes an ideology in and of itself, and how the intellectual heritage of Latin America has been used, disputed, and reinvented over five astonishing centuries.
Russell Crandall is professor of Latin American studies and political science at Davidson College. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a senior official in the Obama Administration, first as principal director for the Western Hemisphere at the Office of the Secretary of Defense and then as director for Andean Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House. His other books include Driven by Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia; Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama; The United States and Latin America after the Cold War; America's Dirty Wars: Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror; The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992; Drugs and Thugs: The History and Future of America's War on Drugs; and "Our Hemisphere"?: The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the 21st Century.
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