Open Veins of Latin America

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.. truly a majestic book. It drives ahead with a great emotional and intellectual power. The rangé and depth of Galeano's knowledge is stupendous. His style is superb and fits his perfect grasp of this vast mass of material which at the same time is admirably and competently organized. There is not a minute's ietdown. He is as remorseless as a tornádó and rips away every defense of imperialism with a determined yet quiet rage. This book surpasses any I have ever read on the theme, and it will endure through all the years to come. It is truly a great book."-Carleton Beals. mmBB: "This book may in time rival all others in providing generál ideas 'or analyses of both the colon ial and modern periods Although a writer-journalist by trade, Galeano possesses a grasp of history and historicism that is often missing in the writings of persons trained in the field He is brilliant in his description of poverty in the cities, the intemational system of dom inat ion suffered by each... Tovább

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.. truly a majestic book. It drives ahead with a great emotional and intellectual power. The rangé and depth of Galeano's knowledge is stupendous. His style is superb and fits his perfect grasp of this vast mass of material which at the same time is admirably and competently organized. There is not a minute's ietdown. He is as remorseless as a tornádó and rips away every defense of imperialism with a determined yet quiet rage. This book surpasses any I have ever read on the theme, and it will endure through all the years to come. It is truly a great book."-Carleton Beals. mmBB: "This book may in time rival all others in providing generál ideas 'or analyses of both the colon ial and modern periods Although a writer-journalist by trade, Galeano possesses a grasp of history and historicism that is often missing in the writings of persons trained in the field He is brilliant in his description of poverty in the cities, the intemational system of dom inat ion suffered by each country, and the reproduction of similar systems within each of them a dazzling barrage of words and ideas ..-History. "Eminent Latin American author Galeano is both impassioned and a hard-nosed scholar in this well-documented, Marxist-oriented history of Latin America as an exploited continent from the time of Columbus to the present. Galeano focuses on the despoliation of the land, people and culture of those countries ... Gold, silver, cocoa, cotton, rubber, coffee, fruit, sugár, oil, iron, tin, copper and nitrates are among the 'open veins' whose drainage Galeano traces and analyzes ..-Publishers' Weekly. Vissza