Page 141 Book Reviews Beginning in this issue, the Hispanic American Historical Review will periodically present âfeatureâ reviews of selected books. These longer, more detailed reviews will be devoted to works of particular historiographic signiï¬cance, as well as books that raise interpretive or theoretical issues that we believe will be of interest to a large number of readers. Feature The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By friedrich katz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv, 985 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $29.95. Notwithstanding Zapatismoâs recent revival, no Mexican, past or present, has greater name recognition, inside or outside Mexico, than Pancho Villa. Ask workaday Mexicans about this charismatic leader and erstwhile friend of the poor and they may relive Panchoâs daring exploits, perhaps lapsing into nostalgic corridos about his stirring victories at Torreón and Zacatecas. Of late, Villa has even undergone a renaissance of sorts, becoming the object of venerated spiritual cults in northern Mexico. For their part, PRIista apologists prefer to consign the Centaur of the North to a decidedly secondary role in the Revolutionâs pantheon of heroes, portraying him as a destroyer, a common vaquero and bandit, who capriciously took advantage
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