Unfinished Revolution

Unfinished Revolution
Unfinished Revolution

Unfinished Revolution

Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation
By Kenneth E. Morris

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304 Pages, 6 x 9

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Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)

ISBN 9781556528088

Rights: WOR

Chicago Review Press (Jun 2010)
Lawrence Hill Books

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Overview

An eye-opening look at Central America's most controversial leader

The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua’s continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution’s most emblematic yet enigmatic hero. It traces Ortega’s life from his childhood in Nicaragua’s mountainous mining region, where his parents instilled in him a hatred of Yankee imperialism, through a current presidential administration that has many of the earmarks of the authoritarianism he opposed in others. In between, it shows him as a teenager caught up in political agitation, a political prisoner locked in a jail cell for seven years, a strategist and fighter of the Revolution, a leader in the new republic, and a behind-the-scenes powerbroker plotting his own return to power. The portrait that emerges is of a man who wants the best for his country—and often gets it—yet also one prone to making questionable compromises in pursuit of his lofty ambitions.

Author Biography

Kenneth E. Morris is the author of two previous political biographies, Jimmy Carter, American Moralist and Bonhoeffer’s Ethic of Discipleship. He is a former professor at the University of Georgia and has held research fellowships at Columbia University, the University of California–Berkeley, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Notre Dame.