Benito Juárez (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dennis Wepman
- First Published: 1986
- Time of Work: 1806–1872
- Setting: Mexico and Louisiana
- Principal Characters: Benito Juárez, Vicente Guerrero, Antonio Maza, Antonio Salanueva, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Melchor Ocampo, Porfirio Díaz
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Native Americans or American Indians, Politicians, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Biography
- Locales: Mexico, Louisiana
Form and Content
Dennis Wepman’s biography of revolutionary Mexican leader Benito Pablo Juárez is a book with two parallel themes: the rise to independence of a man and of a nation. Benito Juárez comprises five chapters that generally discuss Juárez’s life chronologically, from his early days as a runaway to the final battles of his political career.
Instead of beginning with Juárez’s birth, Wepman opens his book with an incident that led to Juárez’s first prison term. These nine days, according to many historians, “forged the will that rocked the...
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