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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Ilan (Editor/Introduction) Stavans, Mary Peabody Mann (Translator), Mary Peabody Mannn, Domingof Sarmiento Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-14-043677-4 / 0140436774 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043677-8 / 9780140436778 Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modern |