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"The indefatigable Lewis Hanke has given our guild another useful teaching aid in the form of this brief history, combining text and readings. Freshness and realism are among the salient qualities of this text. The all-too-frequent tendency to gloss over the unpleasant facts of contemporary Latin American society and to dull the sharp edges of inter-American conflicts is absent from this book, which combines sprightly writing with the sound scholarship that we have learned to expect from Professor Hanke. Particularly commendable is the balanced presentation of topics on which we are accustomed to hear clichés, such as the Cuban Revolution. Pungent quotations from a variety of unofficial sources, including literary works like Carlos Fuentes' Where the Air Is Clear, enliven the text. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliography which demonstrates the author's close scrutiny of the growing body of writings on contemporary Latin America. If the second section, composed of readings, makes a less happy impression, the fault is not Professor Hanke's. The fact is that much that has and is being written about contemporary Latin America, both in this country and to the South, has a peculia

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Author

Hanke, Lewis.

Publisher

Van Nostrand, [1968]

Published

1968

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction