Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America
&#8220;An ambitious attempt to trace the interaction of ideas and power in Hispanic America.&#8221; (The Wall Street Journal)&#8220;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.&#8221; (Paul Berman,The New York Times Book Review)&#8220;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.&#8221; (The Financial Times)&#8220;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.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;Krauze illuminates Latin American thought and politics in a vibrant and invaluable blend of biography and analysis. . . .Redeemersprovides discerning and much-needed insight into our dynamic neighbors.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;Highly readable. . . . An important book.&#8221; (The Tuscon Citizen)&#8220;Krauze attempts to weave together the disparate threads of all the feuding orthodoxies through mini-biographies of 12 leaders and thinkers. Krauze, perhaps Mexico&#8217;s most widely respected intellectual, is uniquely suited to the task, and the resulting tapestry is both persuasive and evocative.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;An engaging survey of the ideas and quasi-religious convictions that have powered modern Latin America&#8217;s consequential political movements.&#8221; (The Daily)&#8220;Krauze is, without a doubt, one of the most renowned and important intellectuals in Mexico. . . . He has developed a prose style of expressive clarity and metaphoric restraint that has enormous impact. His books read like novels: the greatest possible achievement for a historian of ideas.&#8221; (The Nation)&#8220;Redeemersis 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.&#8221; (Mario Vargas Llosa,El Pa&#xED;s)