Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Book review)

The Historian | December 22, 2008| | Copyright

Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution. By Jurgen Buchenau. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 275.)

Plutarco Elias Calles is remembered in Mexico as one of the Revolution's "winners," those opportunistic survivors who mouthed the pieties of social justice while establishing an oligarchy more brutal and corrupt than the one they had just overthrown. Their venality is the theme of short stories by Mariano Azuela and Martin Luis Guzman and the novels of Carlos Fuentes. Jurgen Buchenau might have been forgiven had he merely added ...

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