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American Liberator
Simon & Schuster
April 2013
On Sale: April 8, 2013
Featuring: Simon Bolivar
626 pages
ISBN: 1439110190
EAN: 9781439110195
Kindle: B008J4PNX8
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Non-Fiction Biography
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of
South America, is not better known in the United States. He
freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than
75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest
figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic,
straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in
punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing
forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they
married and never remarried (although he did have a
succession of mistresses, including one who held up the
revolution and another who saved his life), and he died
relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would
endure. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents,
novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly captures
early nineteenth-century South America and the explosive
tensions that helped revolutionize Bolívar. In 1813 he
launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and
Venezuela, commencing a dazzling career that would take him
across the rugged terrain of South America, from Amazon
jungles to the Andes mountains. From his battlefield
victories to his ill-fated marriage and legendary love
affairs, Bolívar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless
general, brilliant strategist, consummate diplomat,
passionate abolitionist, gifted writer, and flawed
politician. A major work of history, Bolívar
colorfully portrays a dramatic life even as it explains
the rivalries and complications that bedeviled Bolívar’s
tragic last days. It is also a stirring declaration of what
it means to be a South American.
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