Bolivar : the life of an idealist / by Emil Ludwig

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alliance Book Corporation, 1942Description: xi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 923.28
LOC classification:
  • F 2235.3 .L9 1942
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Contents:
Chapter one: the dandy -- Chapter two: ordeal -- Chapter three: the liberator -- Chapter four: the dictator -- Chapter five: Don Quixote.
Summary: "The great swashbuckling soldier [Bolivar] who made the now legendary crossing of the Andes on muleback and who liberated almost one third of South America from European domination was a theorist in politics, bothered by questions which are today plaguing almost every portion of the globe [...] Bolivar is not a study of pitched battles and bloody sieges. It is essentially a psychological history of a man who had to face problems similar to those of our day. The questions of democracy and dictatorship, of liberty and censorship, of the people for the state or the state for the people are the dilemmas which are common to Simon Bolivar and to ourselves." -- from the dust jacket (glued to the inside of the book).
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks F 2235.3 .L9 1942 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20060003

Includes index.

Chapter one: the dandy -- Chapter two: ordeal -- Chapter three: the liberator -- Chapter four: the dictator -- Chapter five: Don Quixote.

"The great swashbuckling soldier [Bolivar] who made the now legendary crossing of the Andes on muleback and who liberated almost one third of South America from European domination was a theorist in politics, bothered by questions which are today plaguing almost every portion of the globe [...] Bolivar is not a study of pitched battles and bloody sieges. It is essentially a psychological history of a man who had to face problems similar to those of our day. The questions of democracy and dictatorship, of liberty and censorship, of the people for the state or the state for the people are the dilemmas which are common to Simon Bolivar and to ourselves." -- from the dust jacket (glued to the inside of the book).

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