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Este libro, escrito por uno de los grandes historiadores españoles, "conjuga el deseo personal de perfilar la imagen de una España "madre de muchos pueblos" y la aspiración del docente que querría transmitir esa imagen a un público amplio". "Escribo estas páginas -afirma el autor-con cierto aire de testamento literario, para responder a una demanda imperiosa, para colaborar en una tarea de renovada actualidad", la de llenar "el vacío que deja la ausencia de una auténtica enseñanza histórica en los actuales planes de enseñanza obligatoria"

Desde el principio de su historia, los paises de America Latina tuvieron como principal motor de sus luchas la conquista de su independencia; luego, durante el siglo XX conseguir un orden politico estable y armonioso fue el maximo desafio. Las paginas de este libro reflejan las hazanas y sinsabores de los treinta protagonistas elegidos por la calidad de sus gestas o de la ambicion de sus propositos. A traves de los agudos perfiles de Fidel Castro, Jose Artigas, Juan Peron, Victor R. Haya de la Torre, y Domingo F. Sarmiento, entre otros, con un lenguaje claramente descriptivo, Fernando Sabsay...

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...