Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish. Written in exile in 1850, the memoirs describe his childhood and adolescence in an Andean province whose customs were still those of a colony. Sarmiento presents his life as the triumph of...

En este libro traza un panorama histrico de la Argentina del siglo XIX con nfasis en el pasado colonial y en los orgenes familiares de Sarmiento. Es una historia de las tradiciones familiares y de los apellidos que influyeron en los acontecimientos de vastas regiones de Argentina y Chile. This book traces the historical panorama of 19th century Argentina, with an emphasis on its colonial past and the familial roots of Sarmiento himself. It is a chronicle of family traditions and of the origins of the family names that weighed most heavily on events across vast regions in Argentina and Chile.

Esta biografa con profundos elementos reflexivos retrata el temperamento de un tirano de la Argentina. El autor se esfuerza en captar con todos sus matices a un tipo de carcter autoritario que marc la historia del siglo XIX americano. Sarmiento no slo se ocupa del personaje en cuestin sino que se interesa por el contexto en que ste vivi.