Michael Rodriguez
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
While not all Latinos agree with Gómez’s call for censuses to treat “Latino” as a race and not an ethnicity, she delivers a rigorous and provocative study of the liminal zone Latino/as inhabit in America’s racial continuum. Required reading.
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
A definitive political history of modern Spain: searing, sympathetic, analytical, and packed with enough intrigues and regime changes to excite scholars and history buffs alike.
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
A spirited, entertaining read with a twist of insight and a tang of scandal.
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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
Overall, a rich, intimate, evenhanded narrative that reveals the Cuban people’s resilience and resourcefulness amid oppression.
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950–1953
An extraordinary kaleidoscope of human experiences in a catastrophic forgotten war.
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The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump
An evenhanded and thought-provoking study of Hispanic conservatism.
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
Consummate popular history: fast-paced, intelligent, and entertaining.
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Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
While previous studies lionized or sentimentalized Beatriz, Harmer roots the subject in the context of the time period and brings to bear her own expertise in Cold War Latin America. A definitive biography of a female revolutionary.
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The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
A fast-paced, recommended work that enthralls, edifies, and reveals the disturbing extent to which Latvians and others participated in genocide.