Un país de chiste

Esta obra es la continuaci n de los vol menes sobre Benito Ju rez publicados en 2006. En ella se hace un repaso de los art culos, los libros, las rese as y algunos episodios que comentan los temas tratados en los dos libros anteriores.

En el año 479 a. C, Esparta era admirada por todo el mundo conocido. Y poco después, en el 402, se convirtió en la potencia hegemónica de Grecia. Sin embargo, una generación después, la ciudad-estado carecía de importancia... ¿Por qué? ¿Qué salió mal? ¿Fue inevitable la caída de Esparta? Si bien sus temibles hoplitas fueron siempre considerados invencibles en el campo de batalla, Esparta aunó muchos errores políticos y diversos y graves problemas sociales, en la creencia de que sus costumbres y leyes eran inmutables, superiores a los de cualquier otro pueblo. Es la historia...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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