Table of Contents

Viera's Inauguration. Piedras Blancas. Constitutional Reform. Batlle's Reforms. The Eight-Hour Day. Education. Rancher Opposition. Old Age Pensions. ""Catholicism in Our Times."" Campaigning. Enforcing the Eight-Hour Day. Explaining the Colegiado. Opposing the Colegiado. The Right to Food. Vote Colegialist or Stay Home? Election Eve. The Colegiado's Defeat. Viera's Halt. Batlle's Burial. The Grand Solution. New Cabinet. The January 14, 1917, Election. Batlle Resurrected. The Committee of Eight and the New Constitution. Where Will the New Constitution Take Us? Uruguay Wins Diplomatically. Viera Ends the Halt. Batlle's ""My Conduct in the Reform."" Epilogue.

About the Author

Milton I. Vanger is professor emeritus of history at Brandeis University. The preeminent scholar of Jose Batlle y Ordonez, he is author of Jose Batlle y Ordonez of Uruguay: The Creator of His Times, 1902-1907 and The Model Country: Jose Batlle y Ordonez of Uruguay, 1907-1915.

Reviews

The masterful culmination of a lifetime's labor.... This is one of the most balanced and thorough studies of any Latin American president's political career written in any language. - John Chasteen, University of North Carolina