Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century.
Facundo - Domingo F. Sarmiento
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Translated by Mary Peabody Mann with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Introduction
Chronology
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text