Dec 20, 2009
Heroes of Mexico | Heroes of Mexico
At a glance:
- Author: Morris Rosenblum
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1950–1969
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Quetzalcoatl, Montezuma II, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Vicente Guerrero, Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Lázaro Cárdenas, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Leadership, Revolutions, Art or artists, Native Americans or American Indians, Rulers, Heroes or heroism, Mexico or Mexicans, Biography
- Locales: Mexico
Form and Content
Through the stories of seventeen of Mexico’s dearest icons,
Morris Rosenblum introduces the young reader to the nation’s
highest and lowest moments from the time of the Toltec civilization
in the mid-tenth century. The sketches in Heroes of Mexico are
ordered chronologically, beginning with the mythic biography of
Quetzalcoatl and proceeding through the turmoil of Mexico’s
seemingly constant wars for independence and revolution to the more
placid mid-twentieth century. The final three chapters, sketches of
artists José Clemente Orozco and Diego...
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