La historia detrás de Luisito Rey

Un hombre violento y agresivo, con um corazón frío y una mente criminal... una estadística más. Él no era apenas um traficante de drogas, él era el que se quedaba en la esquina dirigiendo todo. Trabajaba en las calles, vendiendo crack a quien quisiese comprar. Él tenía que luchar sus propias batallas para mantenerse vivo.

José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

Woman guerrilla leader whose passion for art and revolution inspired Latin America's cultural renaissance.