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Francisco Solano Lopez and the Ruination of Paraguay - Honor and Egocentrism (Paperback)
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Francisco Solano Lopez and the Ruination of Paraguay - Honor and Egocentrism (Paperback)
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The first serious biography of Francisco Solano Lopez in English
for decades, this richly researched book tells the dramatic story
of Paraguay's most notorious ruler. Despite the heroic stature he
gained after his death, Lopez was a monumentally flawed leader who
made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Paraguay's
powerful neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, initiating the most
devastating interstate conflict in South American history. Drawing
on a trove of primary sources, James Schofield Saeger offers a
critical analysis of Lopez's personality and often-irrational
persecution of enemies, adherents, and siblings. He traces Lopez's
preparation for high public office, work habits, control of his
nation and army, propaganda, and execution. Concluding with an
examination of Lopez's posthumous rehabilitation, Saeger shows how
the tyrant who ruined his nation became its most highly honored
hero, crowning a campaign by revisionist publicists from 1870 1936,
and a useful symbol for later authoritarians. Still largely
unchallenged in Paraguay today, this glorification of a martial
president is definitively put to rest in Saeger's meticulous
study."
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