{"id":2682,"date":"2018-10-27T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2018-10-27T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T23:42:06","slug":"review-bolivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Review: Bolivar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting interested in South and Central American history because I don&#8217;t remember much about it, nor did I learn a lot of it in school.\u00a0 As I learn more about US history, the echos of its past become clearer.\u00a0 Because I live in Southern California, I hear those echoes from the south of me as well.\u00a0 And some of those echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theallusionist.org\/allusionist\/survival1\">ring with eccentricity<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got to dig in and find more.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00edmon Bol\u00edvar is a big enough name that even I have heard of him.\u00a0 That&#8217;s like saying a few people have heard of George Washington, of course.\u00a0 As with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering06.html#m06-c\">Washington<\/a>, the real story is more complex and enlightening.\u00a0 Bol\u00edvar is liberating Gran Columbia and Venezuela from a different enemy in the shadows of the American and French Revolutions.\u00a0 He also comes from a different, more aristocratic stock and culture.\u00a0\u00a0 His path is littered with politics great and small and stronger urges for personal glory.\u00a0 It is utterly fascinating to see how these differences play out in terms of Bol\u00edvar&#8217;s historical placement and the history of the nations he liberated.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Harvey makes a good guide in that journey.\u00a0 His prose is clean and his research seems sound.\u00a0 The figures and cultures sparkle under his descriptions.\u00a0 As with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2676\"><em>Conquistador<\/em><\/a>, the text seems to be combining known texts rather than pushing new agendas.\u00a0 Perfect for me.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting interested in South and Central American history because I don&#8217;t remember much about it, nor did I learn a lot of it in school.\u00a0 As I learn more about US history, the echos of its past become clearer.\u00a0 Because I live in Southern California, I hear those echoes from the south of me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}