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Mexico by James A. Michener

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Author Biography

Name: James Michener
Birth Date: March 7, 1907
Death Date: October 16, 1997
Place of Birth: Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Place of Death: Austin, Texas, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of James A. Michener
3878 words, approx. 12.9 pages
As Harrison Salisbury wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "James Michener is as much an American institution as the Fourth of July or apple pie." Michener wrote short stories, essays, poems, and art histories, but he was best known as the author of lengthy nov...
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Biography of James A(lbert) Michener
2899 words, approx. 9.7 pages
James Michener has published nearly a dozen volumes of fiction, but such is his versatility that he has published more than an equal number of volumes of nonfiction, and more than one hundred articles in periodicals. He does, however, think of himself pr...
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Biography of James Michener
1770 words, approx. 5.9 pages
James Michener (1907-1997) is best known for his many epic historical novels, which have sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. He was also a noted philanthropist, having contributed more than $100 million to universities, libraries, museums, and...


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Mexico Information
487 words, approx. 2 pages
Mexico is a novel by James A. Michener published in 1992. The main action of Mexico takes place over a three-day period in the fictional city of Toledo in 1961. The occasion is the annual bullfighting festival, at which two matadors — one an acclaimed...


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The Washington Post
The Sage of Mexico; A monumental novel takes on the legendary poet Sor Juana.
10/16/2005: 1,083 words, approx. 4 pages
HUNGER'S BRIDES A Novel of the Baroque By Paul Anderson Carroll & Graf. 1,358 pp. $35 At the age of 16, Juana Ines Ramirez de Santillana y Asbaje -- the illegitimate offspring of an illiterate, if prosperous, mother and an...
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Utopian Studies
The dialogics of utopia, dystopia and arcadia: political struggle and utopian novels in nineteenth-century Mexico.
01/01/1997: 6,176 words, approx. 21 pages
Nineteenth-century Mexican politics was a struggle between conservative monarchists and liberal republicans. This debate was played out in the streets, in discussion and in novels and other literature. Liberal authors wrote stories that illustrated how an ideal society might look. Conservatives wrote dystopias in...
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Investor's Business Daily
Sabotaging Mexico
9/10/2007: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Terrorism: Another six blasts at Mexico's energy infrastructure Sunday drove world natural gas prices higher. But the probable real intention was to destabilize Mexico by destroying its economy. Who benefits here?Thus far, no one has claimed responsibility for the coordinated attack in Veracruz that blew...
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Investor's Business Daily
Terror Calls Mexico
8/31/2007: 690 words, approx. 2 pages
War On Terror: Mexico may think its differences with the U.S. and status as a nonaligned country somehow shield it from the global war on terror. But last week's evacuation of its tallest building shows it too is a target.Nearly 11,000 people were evacuated Thursday...
 


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