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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790625103321

Autore

Morris Kenneth Earl <1955->

Titolo

Unfinished revolution [[electronic resource] ] : Daniel Ortega and Ncaragua's struggle for liberation / / Kenneth E. Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010

ISBN

1-56976-754-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

972.8505/3

Soggetti

National liberation movements - Nicaragua - History - 20th century

Nicaragua Politics and government 1979-1990

Nicaragua Politics and government 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Making of a Revolutionary; A Few More Murderers Among Murderers; The Battle Within and Without; Governing an Embattled Republic; Governing from Below; Toward a Dynasty of the Left; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution's most emblematic yet enigmatic hero. It traces Ortega's life from his childhood in Nicaragua's mountainous mining region, where his parents instilled in him a hatred of Yankee imperialism, through a current presidential administration that has many of the earmarks of the authoritarianism he opposed in others. In between,