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Simon Bolivar - Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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Simon Bolivar - Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary (Hardcover)
Series: Latin American Silhouettes
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This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life
and career of one of Latin America's most famous and most adulated
historical figures. Departing from the conventional, narrow
treatment of Bolivar's role in the Spanish-American wars of
independence (1810 1825), leading historian Lester D. Langley
frames this remarkable figure as the quintessential Venezuelan
rebel, who by circumstance and sheer will rose to be the
continent's most noted revolutionary and liberator. In the process,
he became both a unifying and a divisive presence whose symbolic
influence remains powerful even today. Twice Bolivar gained power,
twice he confronted a formidable counterrevolution, twice he was
compelled to flee. His ultimate tactic of using slave and
mixed-race troops aroused both the admiration and fear of U.S.
leaders and became a topic of heated discussion in the critical
debates of 1817 and 1818 over U.S. policy toward the
Spanish-American wars as well as the arguments over the admission
of Missouri as a state in 1820 1821 and the U.S. decision to
participate in the ill-fated Congress of Panama. Although he earned
the sobriquet of the "George Washington" of South America, Bolivar
in victory became more conservative and critical of the democratic
tide of the era. Unlike Washington, Bolivar was forced into exile,
the victim of his own ambitions and the fears of others. In his
tragic end, he symbolized the glorious warrior so consumed by his
own ambition and hatreds that he was destroyed. In death, he became
a cult figure whose life and meaning casts a long shadow over
modern Venezuelan history. As the author convincingly explains, he
remains the most relevant figure of the revolutionary age in the
Americas."
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