{"product_id":"9780826520555","title":"The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa: Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing","description":"Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa\u003c\/i\u003e, we see the famous author as he really was: a careful craftsman of his own image and legacy. His five-volume biography of Villa propelled him to the heights of Mexican cultural life, and thus began his true life's work. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody shapes this study of Guzman through the lens of \"life writing\" and uncovers a tireless effort by Guzman to shape his public image.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa\u003c\/i\u003e places Guzman's work in a biographical context, shedding light on the immediate motivations behind his writing in a given moment and the subsequent ways in which he rewrote or repackaged the material. Despite his efforts to establish a definitive reading of his life and literature, Guzman was unable to control that interpretation as audiences became less tolerant of the glaring omissions in his self-portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129184829680,"sku":"9780826520555","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826520555_p0.jpg?v=1763825881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826520555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}