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Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century
Mike Gonzalez
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Description for Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century
Hardback. The first biography published after Chavez's death, tracing his life from a poor rural family to the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. Series: Revolutionary Lives. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 206 x 14. Weight in Grams: 282.
When Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, millions across the globe mourned. In an age where most politicians inspire only apathy and cynicism, Chavez's popularity, radicalism and vibrant personality were truly unique.
Released one year after Chavez's unexpected death, this dramatic and intimate biography traces Chavez's life from an impoverished rural family to the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. Mike Gonzalez shows how Chavez's 'Bolivarian revolution' aimed to complete Simon Bolivar's promise of a Latin America free from imperialism.
Gonzalez details Chavez's close connection to the masses and how he ... Read more
When Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, millions across the globe mourned. In an age where most politicians inspire only apathy and cynicism, Chavez's popularity, radicalism and vibrant personality were truly unique.
Released one year after Chavez's unexpected death, this dramatic and intimate biography traces Chavez's life from an impoverished rural family to the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. Mike Gonzalez shows how Chavez's 'Bolivarian revolution' aimed to complete Simon Bolivar's promise of a Latin America free from imperialism.
Gonzalez details Chavez's close connection to the masses and how he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Series
Revolutionary Lives
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334660
SKU
V9780745334660
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About Mike Gonzalez
Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).
Reviews for Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century
'A seminal work on the ideological and political formation of the former Venezuelan President and leading figure of twenty-first century socialism'
Francesco Di Bernardo, LSE Review of Books 'For activists and scholars alike, this is an excellent biography, which mirrors in its nuances and subtleties the complexity of the Bolivarian process and the figure of Chavez himself'
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Francesco Di Bernardo, LSE Review of Books 'For activists and scholars alike, this is an excellent biography, which mirrors in its nuances and subtleties the complexity of the Bolivarian process and the figure of Chavez himself'
Jeffery ... Read more