Table of Contents

• Introduction: Heroes and Their Cults in Modern Latin America (Ben Fallaw and Samuel Brunk)
• 1. Simón Bolívar: Man and Myth (John Chasteen)
• 2. Remembering and Forgetting Agustín Gamarra: The Life and Legacy of the Cuzco Caudillo (Charles F. Walker)
• 3. Antonio López de Santa Anna's Search for Personalized Nationalism (Shannon Baker)
• 4. Presidential Ritual in Porfirian Mexico: Curtsying in the Shadow of Dictators (Víctor M. Macías-González)
• 5. The Eyes of Emiliano Zapata (Samuel Brunk)
• 6. Felipe Carrillo Puerto of Revolutionary-Era Yucatán, Mexico: Popular Leader, Caesar, or Martyr? (Ben Fallaw)
• 7. Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua: The Hero Never Dies (Richard Grossman)
• 8. Frida Kahlo: Heroism of Private Life (Nancy Deffebach)
• 9. Haya de la Torre and APRA (David Nugent)
• 10. Evita Perón: Beauty, Resonance, and Heroism (Linda B. Hall)
• 11. Conclusion: Rethinking Latin American Heroes (Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw)
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

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A collection of original essays on ten modern Latin American heroes, their legacies, and the societies that produced them.

About the Author

Samuel Brunk is Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Ben Fallaw is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Colby College in Maine.