KRAUZE, ENRIQUE
Reconstructs turbulent years of post-revolutionary period when president Plutarco Elías Calles undertook immense work of rebuilding nation materially and institutionally amid fears of US invasion. Highlights actions and achievements of men like Alberto J. Pani, Manuel Gómez Morín, Luis Montes de Oca, et al. and obstacles they overcame to build scaffolding on which modern Mexico rests. Krauze is eminent historian and intellectual.