Review: The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa. Martín Luis Guzmán and the Politics of Life Writing by Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody

Alan Knight, Professor Emeritus of the History of Latin America, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, previously taught at the University of Essex and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1986; revised Spanish translation 2010); Mexico From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest and Mexico The Colonial Era (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Revolución, democracia y populismo en América Latina (Ediciones Centro de Estudios Bicentenario, 2005); La revolución cósmica (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015); Repensar la Revolución mexicana (El Colegio de México, 2015); and The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has co-edited books on the Mexican petroleum industry, caciquismo, superstition in history, and the great depression in Latin America.