La Vida A Ciegas

This compendium of biographies presents the people who had the courage to make important decisions that have altered the course of history. From Cleopatra to Todd Beamer and the passengers of flight 93, Tecumseh to Betty Friedan, Alan Axelrod writes about fascinating figures from all times and places and examines how and why they acted the way they did.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

«He tenido el privilegio o la mala suerte, según se mire, de haber asistido la mitad de mi existencia a un mundo y la otra a uno muy distinto. Media vida franquista y otra media democrática. Lo cual me ha permitido, en ocasiones, como ha quedado recogido en estas páginas, ser testigo -estar en el momento oportuno-de tantas cosas que han resultado determinantes en algunos de esos grandes cambios políticos que se han producido» (General Manuel Fernández-Monzón).«Cuando le pregunté a Manolo por qué no se animaba a escribir un libro de recuerdos y análisis, me respondió que, porque,...

The Cuban-born author and intellectual offers an intensely personal, poignant biography of Caruca, his late wife of sixty-six years, in an illustrated portrait of a remarkable love. (Biography)