El libro de los Libros de Chilam Balam

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El historiador dos veces galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer David McCullough se sumerge en el pasado estadounidense, siguiendo la estela de Tocqueville y los grandes escritores convencidos de los valores de la democracia. Quince espléndidos textos escritos con ocasión de diferentes conmemoraciones públicas dan lugar a una sólida narración, precisa y elegante: desde valores encarnados en figuras casi míticas como Theodore Roosevelt y J. F. Kennedy al modo como John Adams cedió la responsabilidad de la redacción de la Constitución a Jefferson, al que consideraba mejor escritor que él; ...

Con las madres en duelo, la pasión prorrumpe en la ciudad: en el dolor de una madre siempre amenaza el exceso. Como respuesta al llanto de las mujeres, la política de los hombres griegos prescribe un rito funerario de límites estrictos para la emoción. Mas, en el escenario trágico, donde el duelo materno se transforma en actos, Clitemnestra asesina a Agamenón para vengar a Ifigenia. Las mujeres dan miedo a los hombres.

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