Interpreting the Latin American Soul

His book “Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America” is, in his description, “a history of political ideas in Latin America during the late 19th and 20th centuries.” Emerson said “all history is biography,” and Krauze, in an Emersonian mode, has compiled his history by writing biographical portraits of representative people, beginning with José Martí, the Cuban poet and journalist. Read Article