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Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism

by James Schofield Saeger
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780742537552
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 252
  • Original Price: GBP 49.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical

The first serious biography of Francisco Solano L�pez 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, L�pez 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 L�pez's personality and often-irrational persecution of enemies, adherents, and siblings. He traces L�pez's preparation for high public office, work habits, control of his nation and army, propaganda, and execution. Concluding with an examination of L�pez'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.

James Schofield Saeger is professor of history at Lehigh University.

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