{"product_id":"9781466822542","title":"Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpening Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called \"the perfect dictatorship.\" But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. \u003ci\u003eOpening Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexico's Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpening Mexico \u003c\/i\u003edramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the country's elite. It is the best book to date about the modern history of the United States' southern neighbor-and is a tale rich in implications for the spread of democracy worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129817219312,"sku":"9781466822542","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466822542_p0.jpg?v=1769891052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466822542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}