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Article: Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996.(Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996. By Enrique Krauze. (New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Pp. 872. $35.00.)
The author of this survey is Mexico's leading popular, non-fiction author. Enrique Krauze's books aim for a wide audience both in Mexico and the United States. He tells wonderful stories with well-crafted prose. Mexico: Biography of Power relates modern Mexican history through the lives of its leaders from the "Insurgent Priests" Fathers Hidalgo and Morelos, who led Mexicans in the first stages of their independence wars, to Carlos Salinas de Gortari, "The Man Who Would Be King" who as president headed the most corrupt regime in ...