"Emphasizing the man rather than the movement, the author provides an excellent political biography of Zapata. Concludes that Zapata was successful as a local and regional leader but could not make th
Before there was Che Guevara, there was Emiliano Zapata, the charismatic revolutionary who left indelible marks on Mexican politics and society. The sequel to Samuel Brunk's 1995 biography of Zapata,
Latin American history traditionally has been defined by larger-than-life heroes such as S!mon Bol!var, Emiliano Zapata, and Evita Per￠n. Recent scholarship, however, tends to emphasize social and cu
