A Nation Emerges - The Wind That Swept Mexico

From the exhibit, A Nation Emerges ; The Mexican Revolution Revealed , shown at Central Library from September 8, 2011 - June 3, 2012. Featuring iconic images from early postcards and period photographs, the exhibit recounts this complex, multifaceted chapter in Mexico's history. Images courtesy of the Getty Research Institute.

 

About the book: The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Diaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregon, to the peaceful social revolution of Cardenas and Mexico's entry into World War II.

 

Paperback, 310 pages.

Black and white images.