{"product_id":"villa-and-zapata-a-biography-of-the-mexican-revolution-paperback","title":"Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank McLynn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Refreshing ... Frank McLynn has plunged into an important episode in the modern Mexican experience - namely, the social and political revolution that rocked the country for some twenty years, cost two million lives and reshaped its institutions.' The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mexican Revolution erupted in 1910 to the cry of \"Tierra y Libertad\" - Land and Liberty. In the ten years that followed, bloody clashes between impassioned rebels and unscrupulous autocrats convulsed a nation in search of a new identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the first massive social revolution of the twentieth century. Even as it visited further economic, cultural, and racial strife upon a country plagued by oppressive officials and crippled by poverty, it offered hope to the populace. And it made the rebel-outlaws Francisco (Pancho) Villa and Emiliano Zapata heroes in their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVilla and Zapata\u003c\/i\u003e vividly chronicles the decade of turbulent and violent events. The ruthless Pancho Villa and his army of ex-cowboys in the north and Emiliano Zapata, recruiting his infantry from the sugar plantations in the south, successfully waged a devastating war on two fronts and brought down a string of autocrats in Mexico City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank McLynn tells the story of the revolutionaries' chaotic fight for a cause that more towards agrarian reform than towards the amassing of political power. The struggle expertly reveals the inescapable influence of the United States, intertwined with the use of the railway network to transport men and weapons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rousing history recounts, too, the downfall of these two revolutionary heroes. Despite their triumph and only meeting, in 1914, in the Mexican capital, they failed to make common cause and fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank McLynn\u003c\/b\u003e is a British author, biographer, historian and journalist. He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eFitzroy Maclean\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBipolar\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about Roald Amundsen, published by Sharpe Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Frank McLynn: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Frank McLynn's achievement ... is to give Charles Edward a solidarity and three-dimensional reality that he usually lacks ... His account of the risings themselves is exemplary and he offers the best case yet for the nearness to success of the '45. What is usually seen as the last shiver of an anachronistic and romantic throwback emerges as a genuine alternative to Whiggery and the Act of Settlement.' \u003cb\u003eBrian Morton, TES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A broad canvas, dealing not only with sober historical truth but with the magic spell that either seduced or repelled Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burns, Scott, Borrow, Buchan, Stevenson and a hundred Irish poets...' \u003cb\u003eDiarmaid O'Muirithe, Irish Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A readable and fresh study ... thoroughly researched.' \u003cb\u003eEsmond Wright, Contemporary Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Valuable in covering the wide sweep of Scotland, England, Ireland and the Continent, and bringing together many diverse strands into a coherent whole. Its wide range and taut approach make it very useful.' \u003cb\u003eRennie McOwan, The Tablet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Packed with fascinating detail.' \u003cb\u003eDenis Hills, choosing his book of the year in the Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fitzroy Maclean has found his Boswell in Frank McLynn.' \u003cb\u003eTrevor Royle, Scotland on Sunday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Most entertaining.' \u003cb\u003eRichard West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Important, timely and balanced.' \u003cb\u003eSoldier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 468\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52088531091757,"sku":"9798672617916","price":24.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/villa-and-zapata-a-biography-of-the-mexican-revolution-paperback-6315957.webp?v=1780163199","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/villa-and-zapata-a-biography-of-the-mexican-revolution-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}