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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

The author builds a realistic theory of democracy to end the false idea that corruption, state crime, and public immorality are democracy's (undesirable) products, not the natural and inevitable fruits of oligarchic regimes. Important theories of the state and constitution exist, but none can be called a theory of democracy.

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Pocas batallas hay tan legendarias como la de Maratón. Este episodio decisivo de la primera de las Guerras Médicas enfrentó en el siglo V a. de C. a los ejércitos de los griegos y los persas, y dio lugar a nombres míticos, como el del general Milcíades, cuya estrategia permitió vencer a un ejército superior en número, o el del soldado Filípides, el mensajero que murió para anunciar la victoria a la ciudad de Atenas. Pero las leyendas suelen estar teñidas por un velo de misterio, y el caso de Maratón no es distinto. ¿Cómo condujo Milcíades a sus hombres para derrotar a un...