“A feat of historical writing. . . . Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of Mexico as a civilization.” —Carlos Fuentes, The New York Review of Books
John Womack, Jr., was born in 1937 in Norman, Oklahoma. He attended Harvard University, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laudein 1959. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1959-1961, then returned to Harvard and received his Ph.D. in history in 1965. Mr. Womack is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. View titles by John Womack
"The best piece of narrative history that has been written about modern Latin America in any language."--Ernest R. May

About

“A feat of historical writing. . . . Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of Mexico as a civilization.” —Carlos Fuentes, The New York Review of Books

Author

John Womack, Jr., was born in 1937 in Norman, Oklahoma. He attended Harvard University, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laudein 1959. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1959-1961, then returned to Harvard and received his Ph.D. in history in 1965. Mr. Womack is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. View titles by John Womack

Praise

"The best piece of narrative history that has been written about modern Latin America in any language."--Ernest R. May

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