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"Lavishly produced biography of the Argentine who carried the patriot cause to the interior provinces, Paraguay, and Upper Peru. Includes brief, thoughtful pieces on such topics as iconography, genealogy, economic and political thought, military organization, and Belgrano's relations with women"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Dem crata por convicci n intelectual, arist crata por sus sentimientos, Marcelo T. de Alvear es una figura peculiar de la historia argentina. Esta obra traza una nueva imagen del dirigente radical y presidente de la Rep blica Argentina de 1922 a 1928. de sus p ginas surge una personalidad contradictoria y l cida, Para quien el radicalismo era parte de un proyecto de afianzamiento institucional de la Rep blica.

"An excellent compilation of texts by 31 Argentine political commentators and polemecists from the 1846-80 era. Authors include Mitre, Sarmiento, Alberdi, Echeverría, José Hernández, and Vicente F. López. In his preliminary study, Halperín Donghi notes that only Argentina realized a measure of the material and political progess to which the rest of the continent aspired - and this reflected in no small part the farsightedness of its political thinkers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.