Hugo!
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520528
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $34.99
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Hugo!

The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

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15 Jul 2009
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The definitive biography of one of the world's most charismatic and controversial leaders.

Hugo! is the remarkable biography of Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela and leader of the Bolivian Revolution. Ex-paratrooper and outspoken socialist, Chávez is known for his stance against big business, fearless threats to the Bush administration, social reforms that have violently polarized his country, and also for providing a model for new governments and social movements across South America.

Bart Jones was eyewitness to Chávez' rise to power, and describes his life in extraordinary detail, creating a comprehensive portrait of a man who has affected the most radical transformation of Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America.
  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520528
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

About the author

Bart Jones

Bart Jones is a reporter for Newsday and worked for eight years in Venezuela, mainly a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He holds a master's degree in Social Studies from Columbia University. He has also reported for The Atlantic City Press in New Jersey, where he won awards from the Philadelphia Press Association. He lives with his family on Long Island. Hugo! is his first book.

Praise for Hugo!

Chávez's rise has a made-for-Hollywood quality ... Jones provides a superb description of the economic inequities that helped create the conditions for a populist such as Chávez to come to power ... Where [he] truly excels is in his observations of Venezuelan society and the outsized role oil has played in molding the national character

Washington Post

Jones's book is thoughtful, comprehensive . . . the best in the bunch

Boston Globe

The most useful guide to emerge to such a major personality on the world stage

Independent

Broadly sympathetic without being starry-eyed, this is a journalistic rather than analytical account...Jones's biography is a timely and compendious corrective...a book that seeks to tell this story fairly has got to be welcome

Guardian

A refreshing departure from the ideologically charged tracts that tend to dominate the debate about Chávez

Sunday Times

A detailed dossier

Christopher Hirst, The Independent