{"product_id":"redeemers-ideas-and-power-in-latin-america-isbn-9780060938444","title":"Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region’s most prominentthinkers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInhis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking work, inspired by Isaiah Berlin and Edmund Wilson, unpacks the human stories behind a century of political turmoil:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRedemption vs. Democracy:\u003c\/b\u003e Krauze frames the central dilemma of modern Latin America, examining the tension between the search for a messianic savior and the difficult path toward a stable democratic state.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Cult of the Caudillo:\u003c\/b\u003e From the cultural crusade of José Vasconcelos to the postmodern television presence of Hugo Chávez, explore how the idea of the \"Great Man\" has shaped the region’s political destiny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRevolutionary Icons:\u003c\/b\u003e Delve into the lives of secular saints like Eva Perón, \"The Madonna of the Shirtless Ones,\" and the enraged idealist Che Guevara, whose images continue to inspire and divide the continent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePolitics and the Novel:\u003c\/b\u003e Uncover the divergent political paths of two literary giants, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, and how their worldviews were shaped by the shadow of dictatorship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRedeemers\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón; political thinkers like Mexico’s José Vasconcelos; and the writers José Enrique Rodó, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel García Márquez. \u003cem\u003eRedeemers\u003c\/em\u003e also highlights Mexico’s Samuel Ruiz and Subcomandante Marcos, as well as Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, and their influence on contemporary Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his brilliant, deeply researched history, Enrique Krauze uses the range of these extraordinary lives to illuminate the struggle that has defined Latin American history: an ever-precarious balance between the ideal of democracy and the temptation of political messianism.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorian Krauze illuminates Latin American thought and politics in a vibrant and invaluable blend of biography and analysis. . . . He is equally fluent in complex political thought and the complexities of creative, bold, and controversial lives. . . . Krauze’s clarifying and engaging group portrait provides discerning and much-needed insight into our dynamic neighbors.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krauze illuminates Latin American thought and politics in a vibrant and invaluable blend of biography and analysis. . . . \u003ci\u003eRedeemers\u003c\/i\u003e provides discerning and much-needed insight into our dynamic neighbors.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Highly readable. . . . An important book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tuscon Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krauze attempts to weave together the disparate threads of all the feuding orthodoxies through mini-biographies of 12 leaders and thinkers. Krauze, perhaps Mexico’s most widely respected intellectual, is uniquely suited to the task, and the resulting tapestry is both persuasive and evocative.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Krauze is, without a doubt, one of the most renowned and important intellectuals in Mexico. . . . “Krauze [is a] survivor, a living witness to an era in which intellectuals tried to be men of ideas as well as men of action. \u003ci\u003eRedeemers\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid and moving homage-a swan song-to that tradition by one of its last protagonists. . . . He has a first-rate instinct for storytelling that grabs the reader from the very first page. . . . 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. . . . Few writers have his ability to synthesize and interpret the life and opinions of a person in a few pages.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRedeemers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMario Vargas Llosa, El País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An ambitious attempt to trace the interaction of ideas and power in Hispanic America.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Berman, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection of erudite biographical essays is held together by the singular worldview of its author, one of the leading members of Mexico’s literati. Krauze’s long, loving ode to his mentor and friend the Nobel Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz could stand on its own as a major contribution to the literature on Paz and twentieth-century Mexico.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An engaging survey of the ideas and quasi-religious convictions that have powered modern Latin America’s consequential political movements.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887543218405,"sku":"NP9780060938444","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060938444.jpg?v=1730226329","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/redeemers-ideas-and-power-in-latin-america-isbn-9780060938444","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}