Heroic Mexico: The Narrative History of a Twentieth Century Revolution

The best single volume account of the Mexican ( Madero) Revolution written. The Mexican Revolution began when Francisco Madero challenged incumbent President Porfirio Díaz in the 1910 elections. Díaz arrested Madero and staged fraudulent elections, but Madero had united a broad base of pro-democracy, anti-re-electionists who sought an end to the Díaz regime, including Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1878-1923), a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle c. 1910–1920 radically transforming Mexican culture and government. Although recent research has focused on local and regional aspects of the Revolution, it was a "genuinely national revolution". Its outbreak in 1910 resulted from the failure of the 35-year-long regime of Porfirio Díaz to find a managed solution to the presidential succession. This book is a comprehensive and well-researched history of this time.