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To Die on Your Feet The Life, Times and Writing of Práxedis Guerrero by Ward S. Albro |
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
Amidst the pantheon of Mexican heroes, poet-revolutionary Práxedis G. Guerrero (1882–1910) is a name that is often overlooked. His importance, however, to a full understanding of a rich and dramatic pre-revolutionary period of Mexican history is undeniable.
Ward S. Albro's To Die on Your Feet studies Guerrero's involvement in a movement led by Ricardo Flores Magón, a movement that brought about the Mexican Revolution against the government of Porfirio Díaz in 1910. Unlike other Mexican revolutionaries who are most notable as men of action, Guerrero combined thinking and doing. He was a courageous and active leader of the magonistas who attempted to rally by any means his meager forces to strike a telling blow against the dictatorship; a champion of the downtrodden, he was also a journalist for three liberal newspapers, Revolución, Regeneración, and Puntos Rojos, in which he developed anarchist ideals that moved people on both sides of the Mexico-United States border.
Guerrero, the young fighter for liberty, joined the ranks of martyrdom when he was killed in 1910 in Janos, Chihuahua, during the early days of the Mexican Revolution. He died on his feet.
"Unhesitatingly it can be said that Práxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited."—Ricardo Flores Magón
WARD S. ALBRO is a professor of history at St. Mary's University in San Antonio and the author of Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution.
To see more information about a documentary concerning Práxedis, click here www.weavingthepast.com
To Die on Your Feet
ISBN 0-87565-163-1
$25.00
LC 96-20198. 6x9. 198 pp. 26 b&w photos. Bib. App. Index.
Latin American History.
Publication Date: October 1996.
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