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Author: Brad Rockwell Publisher: ISBN: 9781734485509 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This biography of Dr. Alberto G. Garcia documents his unlikely life as a pioneering open-heart surgeon, Maderista in the Mexican Revolution, brave opponent to the Ku Klux Klan, pathbreaking journalist, civil rights activist, astrologer, yogi, siddha and father and grandfather to a remarkable family. This book offers a unique glimpse into the Mexican Revolution, the long and ongoing relationship between Mexico and Texas, and an array of occultists and saints and their antagonists in in 19th and early 20th Century Austin, Texas and Mexico.
Author: Brad Rockwell Publisher: ISBN: 9781734485509 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This biography of Dr. Alberto G. Garcia documents his unlikely life as a pioneering open-heart surgeon, Maderista in the Mexican Revolution, brave opponent to the Ku Klux Klan, pathbreaking journalist, civil rights activist, astrologer, yogi, siddha and father and grandfather to a remarkable family. This book offers a unique glimpse into the Mexican Revolution, the long and ongoing relationship between Mexico and Texas, and an array of occultists and saints and their antagonists in in 19th and early 20th Century Austin, Texas and Mexico.
Author: Gerald Martin Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307272001 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 689
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In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.
Author: Mario T Garcia Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781089199939 Category : Languages : en Pages : 226
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Roque's Corner is an everyman's story about the underside of Santa Fe, one of the wealthiest and most visited cities in the Southwest and the art capital of the region. While many know this side of Santa Fe, they do not know the other side which is the Hispano/Chicano story. This book tells this story through the eyes of a remarkable individual, Roque García. Raised in Santa Fe by poor working class parents like many other Hispanos, Roque's story parallels the rise of Santa Fe to prominence, but reveals the key importance of working class Chicanos to this rise. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement in Santa Fe (about which little has been published), García worked in the land grant movement with Reies López Tijerina and participated in the historic Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C. in 1968. As a social worker, community leader, and owner of his own food cart on the Santa Fe plaza, Roque García has witnessed the story of Santa Fe in the 20th century and now into the new millennium, but from his underdog position and perspective. He literally has seen much of this from his downtown corner where he sells his famous carnitas. Everyone in Santa Fe knows Roque and Roque knows everyone. He is a popular historian of Santa Fe through his memories. Based heavily on oral history to capture's Roque's narrative, as well as key primary sources, this book is a popular biography of a remarkable Santa Fean and Chicano.
Author: Edgar Dosman Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773574646 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 624
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A wunderkind, Prebisch occupied key positions at the Argentine ministry of finance in his twenties and was the general manager of the Argentine Central Bank before forty. Exiled by Juan Per n after World War II, he became arguably the most influential Latin American official at the UN, heading such international organizations as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Author: Pino Cacucci Publisher: Silvana Editoriale ISBN: 9788836628759 Category : Art Languages : it Pages : 0
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"Actress, photographer, muse of artists like Edward Weston and Diego Rivera, political activist and author of pamphlets, Tina Modotti (Udine, 1896 - Mexico City, 1942) played an active role in major events of the first half of the 20th century: the cultural ferment of the Mexican renaissance, the Cuban revolution and the heroic period of the Communist International, during which her political commitment was expressed through bold, daring actions. The book paints a vivid multifaceted portrait of this extraordinary woman and includes around a hundred photographs in which her quest for formal perfection is combined with her talent for resolutely and passionately capturing the pulse of life."--Back cover.
Author: Alberto Granado Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458758478 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 314
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Published for the first time in the U.S. - one of the two diaries on which the upcoming movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based - the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberton Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952. In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family, decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Agentina on a Norton 500cc motorbike traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. The duo's adventures vary from the suspenseful (stowing away on a cargo ship, exploring Incan ruins) to the comedic (falling in love, drinking, fighting...) to the serious (volunteering as firemen and at a leper colony). They worked as day laborers along the way - as soccer coaches, medical assistants, and furniture movers. The poverty and exploitation of the native population started the process that was to turn Ernesto - the debonair, fun-loving student - into Che, the revolutionary who had a profound impact on the history of several nations. Originally published in Spanish in Cuba in 1978, the first English translation was published by Random House UK in 2003. The movie, based on Granado's and Che's diaries, directed by Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun), was produced by Robert Redford and others. Shown at the Sundance Film Festival, it generated great reviews and a frenzied auction for distribution rights, which was won by Focus Features. Granado, now 82, was a consultant to Salles during the production.
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