Bolivar: American Liberator

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-04-09 Pages: 624 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster It is astonishing that Simn Bolvar. the great Liberator of South America. is not better known in the United States He freed. . six countries from Spanish rule. traveled more than 75.000 miles on horseback to do so. and became the greatest figure in Latin American history His life is epic. heroic. straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain. forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races. lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and never remarried (although he did have a succession of mistresses. including one who held up the revolution and another who saved his life). and he died relatively young. uncertain whether his achievements would endure. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents. novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly c...