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Preston, Julia, and Dillon, Samuel
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 0374226687 / 9780374226688 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
Cloth, gilt, xii, 592 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two Pulitzer prize-winning reporters. Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called 'the perfect dictatorship.' But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. Opening Mexico recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexico's Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000. Opening Mexcio dramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the country's elite. It is the best book to date about the modern history of the United States' southern neighbor-and is a tale rich in implications for the spread of democracy worldwide. / Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon were The New York Times Mexico bureau chiefs from 1995 to 2000. Along with two other reporters, they won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for their coverage of Mexico's narcotics underworld." - Publisher.
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