Bolívar

Simón Bolívar earned the nickname of El Libertador after ending Spanish rule over six countries. Her life was heroic, tragic, and legendary: she traveled from the Amazon to the Andes, fought endless battles, forged alliances between rival races... Drawing on a wide range of sources, Marie Arana captures a vivid portrait of early 19th-century South America, the one that forged Bolívar and turned him into a courageous general, a brilliant strategist, a prodigious writer and an unparalleled politician; In short, he is one of the most admired characters in Latin America. Bolívar is a fast-paced biography in which the reader will find the image of a tragic life captured in all its splendor and a moving manifesto of the true essence of the Latin American people.