Jorge G Castaneda

Gebundenes Buch

Perpetuating Power

How Mexican Presidents Are Chosen

Übersetzer: Smithies, Padraic Arthur

Beschreibung

Castaneda offers a remarkably candid account of Mexican presidential politics, "destined to become the most important political book of the decade" ("Foreign Policy"). In six penetrating essays combined with interviews with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, the author provides a candid account of the country's political machinery.

Autor

Jorge G. Castañeda is a Mexican politician and academic who served as Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2003. He worked as a professor at several universities, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico; the University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; New York University; and the University of Cambridge. He has authored more than a dozen books, including Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States, and Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen, all published by The New Press. Castañeda regularly contributes to newspapers such as Reforma (Mexico), El País (Spain), the Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781565846166
• ISBN-10: 1565846168
• Artikelnr.: 21067258