La historia transnacional

Todos conocemos la figura de Hernán Cortés, casi todo lector tiene una opinión sobre su polémica incidencia histórica, que suele concitar la animadversión (sobre todo en México) o la admiración irrestricta, sin matices. Pero pocos conocen de verdad su vida. Juan Miralles se ha dedicado durante casi treinta años a investigar sobre el personaje del conquistador y nos entrega la que tal vez sea la primera biografía exhaustiva de Cortés, la que hace un mayor acopio de los testimonios de primera mano de los cronistas y desecha los dudosos o apócrifos para trazar un retrato crítico y...

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¿Y los vencedores? ¿No era este el mundo por el que habían estado dispuestos a todo? Esta es la pregunta que palpita en Padres de la Patria. Un capitán de la Armada argentina reconstruye la trama que lo ha convertido en un tipo especial de ser: un monstruo consciente de haberse quemado en el fuego para siempre en nombre de una idea del cumplimiento del deber. El personaje no puede escapar de su encierro porque no hay forma de que su pasado terrible se justifique en este presente que ya no es suyo. Aun vencedor, es otra extraviada criatura de la Guerra Fría, uno de los tantos hombres...

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