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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Kenneth Earl, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National liberation movements--Nicaragua--History--20th century.

National liberation movements.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1979-1990.

Nicaragua.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1990-.

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

Ortega, Daniel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-56976-754-8

OCLC:

651601822