About the Author

Andrew J. Kirkendall is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.

Reviews

An exemplary primer for the new student. Highly recommended.--Choice

Andrew Kirkendall's groundbreaking political biography of Freire brings together, for the first time, an archive fragmented by the great man's many travels and postings.--Latin American Review of Books

I would encourage any new revolutionary government interested in starting a literacy campaign to read this book's sober analysis of the problems encountered when going from theory to the real world. . . . This well-researched book does a fantastic job of illuminating an important aspect of the Cold War and should be in every syllabus on the history of education in Latin America.--Journal of Latin American Studies

In this well-written book, Andrew Kirkendall has taken the measure of the man and his utopian project from a much-needed post-Cold War vantage point.--Royal Institute of International Affairs

Kirkendall's book provides scholars with a rare view of Freire as a reluctant politician and historical figure . . . . For scholars interested in the socio-political limits and possibilities for curriculum implementation, this examination of how Freire's ideas were mutually adapted by the political actors of the Cold War raises some interesting questions about the post-Cold War significance of Freire's work.--History of Education Quarterly

This volume by Andrew J. Kirkendall is, in my judgment, the most authoritative account of the life and times of Paulo Freire. . . . An immensely informative and engaging account of one of the most important educators of our time.--The Americas

Well-researched and effectively written.--Hispanic American Historical Review