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050 00 $aF2328.52.C48$bM3713 2007
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100 1 $aMarcano, Cristina,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005064128
240 10 $aHugo Chávez sin uniforme.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007017227
245 10 $aHugo Chávez /$cCristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated by Kristina Cordero ; introduction by Moisés Naím.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axxii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-316) and index.
520 1 $a"He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chavez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and antagonize America. Born in a small town on the Venezuelan plains, Chavez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chavez reveals in dramatic detail, he was drawn to leftist politics and a new sense of himself as predestined to change the fortunes of his country and Latin America as a whole." "Portrayed as never before is the double life Chavez soon began to lead: by day he was a family man and a military officer, but by night he secretly recruited insurgents for a violent overthrow of the government. His efforts would climax in an attempted coup against President Carlos Andres Perez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Chavez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later." "Here is the truth about Chavez's revolutionary "Bolivarian" government, which stresses economic reforms meant to discourage corruption and empower the poor - while the leader spends seven thousand dollars a day on himself and cozies up to Arab oil elites. Venezuelan journalists Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka explore the often crude and comical public figure who condemns George W. Bush in the most fiery language but at the same time hires lobbyists to improve his country's image in the West. The authors examine not only Chavez's political career but also his personal life - including his first marriage, which was marked by a long affair and the birth of a troubled son, and his second marriage, which produced a daughter toward whom Chavez's favoritism has caused private tension and public talk." "This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chavez's own diary and draws on new research and interviews with such insightful subjects as Herma Marksman, the professor who was his mistress for nine years. Hugo Chavez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aChávez Frías, Hugo.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93108109
651 0 $aVenezuela$xHistory$y1974-1999.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92000743
651 0 $aVenezuela$xHistory$y1999-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001005287
650 0 $aPresidents$zVenezuela$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109965
700 1 $aBarrera, Alberto.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87897255
700 1 $aCordero, Kristina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96070448
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010041.html
852 00 $boff,leh$hF2328.52.C48$iM3713 2007