DEL PAISAJE, ALMA DEL RINCÓN DE ADEMUZ (I)

El historiador dos veces galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer David McCullough se sumerge en el pasado estadounidense, siguiendo la estela de Tocqueville y los grandes escritores convencidos de los valores de la democracia. Quince espléndidos textos escritos con ocasión de diferentes conmemoraciones públicas dan lugar a una sólida narración, precisa y elegante: desde valores encarnados en figuras casi míticas como Theodore Roosevelt y J. F. Kennedy al modo como John Adams cedió la responsabilidad de la redacción de la Constitución a Jefferson, al que consideraba mejor escritor que él; ...

Uno de los grandes riesgos de las síntesis históricas es que al darle forma a los procesos de cambio que modifican de raíz una sociedad en un lapso de tiempo se pierden de vista las pequeñas historias de los grupos sociales participantes en los grandes movimientos. Evitar esto es uno de los grandes aciertos del libro de Hamnett, quien hace una crítica de la historia del movimiento independentista mexicano con base en la problemática de cada región del país.

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