TY - JOUR
AU - Zeltsman, Corinna
AB - 1950s, the party was engaged in armed actions to free political prisoners. In that sense, the party was effec- the island. Most famously, party members attempted tive in drawing attention to the continued colonial to assassinate Harry S. Truman at the Blair House in status of the island. Power’s book is an important con- 1950, and four years later, four activists shot at con- tribution both to our understanding of that history as gressional representatives from the gallery in the US well the nature and significance of transnational soli- capitol to bring attention to their cause. Puerto Rican darity campaigns. nationalists spent decades in prison for fighting for Marc Becker Truman State University the freedom of their country. In the face of the intense government repression that resulted from these armed actions as well as the rise of Luis Muñoz Marín’s Pop- Eric Van Young. A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and ular Democratic Party, which in Power’s words “shep- Mexico, 1792–1853. New Haven, CT: Yale University herded Puerto Rico’s transition from a direct U.S. Press, 2021. Pp. 848. Cloth $50.00. colony to a more camouflaged one,” the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party declined as a potent political force. In his biography of statesman 
TI - Eric Van Young. A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792–1853.
JF - American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhad564
DA - 2024-03-13
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/eric-van-young-a-life-together-lucas-alam-n-and-mexico-1792-1853-hGWTGkHPSi
SP - 314
EP - 315
VL - 129
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -