THE WARS OF PERSUASION Conflict Interpretation and Power in the Early Years of Facundos Reception
23

THE RISKS OF FICTION Facundo and the Parameters of Historical Writing
41

THE WILES OF DISPUTATION Alberdi Reads Facundo
67

FACUNDOS TRAVELS TO THE METROPOLITAN CENTERS
83

THE NATION CONSOLIDATED The 1880s and the Canonization of Facundo
99

A CLASSIC CORRECTED Rewriting the National Myths
142

NOTES
171

BIBLIOGRAPHY
195

INDEX
213

Goodrich examines in learned detail a founding text of Argentine social and cultural history.... There is no competing study of this caliber.... As an example of intellectual history, it is superbly done.