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Looking for History
Alma Guillermoprieto
其他書名
Dispatches from Latin America
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2007-12-18
主題
History / Latin America / Central America
History / Essays
Political Science / International Relations / General
ISBN
030742667X
9780307426673
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5oeiLqS35eQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the
esteemed
New Yorker
correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox.
Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst.
Looking for History
is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.