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Bolívar: American Liberator
by Marie Arana
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Simon & Schuster
Published: April
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Bolivar
“Finally, Bolivar gets the sweeping biography he deserves. He was the greatest leader in Latin American history, and his tale is filled with lessons about leadership and passion. This book reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history.”
– Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
“This is a magnificent story. Deeply researched and written with clarity, honesty, and verve, Marie Arana’s book tells the life of one of the greatest heroes and founders in world history.’”
– Gordon S. Wood, author of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, –, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University
“With the eye and ear of a novelist, Marie Arana chants the epic of Bolivar with love, zest, and compelling authority.”
– Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
“Simon Bolivar has found the perfect biographer in Marie Arana, a literary journalist, brilliant novelist of South America, and wise historian as well. Her portrait of Bolivar is human and moving; she has written a powerful and epic life and times."
– Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Struggle to Save the World
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In this week's magazine, Jon Lee Anderson profiles Hugo Chávez Frías, the President of Venezuela, who wants to reshape the Latin-American political landscape. Here Anderson provides a guide to the books and online sources crucial to understanding Chávez, his troubled nation and continent, and his great model, Simón Bolívar.
Over the past century and a half, the life and times of Simón Bolívar have inspired an extensive international bibliography, but there is little available in English. "Bolívar," by Salvador de Madariaga (Pellegrini & Cudahy, ), and "Simón Bolívar," by Gerhard Masur (University of New Mexico, ), are generally regarded as the best biographies. Although hard to find, "Selected Writings of Bolívar, ," in two volumes, edited by Harold A. Bierck, Jr. (Bolivarian Society of Venezuela and the Colonial Press, ), is a fascinating, well-translated English-language compilation of Bolívar's letters, proclamations, and public addresses. It also comes with a biographical introduction.
Since Bolívar, of course, there have been many Latin-American caudillos, or strongmen, a phenomenon that has, in turn, spawned a rich literary canon. Among the most distinguished works in this genre, which might well be called dictator lit, are