TY - BOOK AU - Krauze E. AU - Krauze Enrique AU - Heifetz Hank AU - Wimmer Natasha TI - Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America SN - 9780066214733 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - 929 Біографічні дослідження KW - UDC N2 - An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region’s most prominentthinkers Inhis 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 in Latin America today ER -