Why read A Compact History of Mexico?

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Esta obra contiene la dosis mínima de conocimiento sobre la historia de nuestro país. Destinada a todos cuantos quieran una historia verdadera, interesante y escrita en un lenguaje sencillo y claro.

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Mexico
Texas

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History

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Compact History of Mexico as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anthony Paul Griffin

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Texas schools do an incredible job of acculturating their students in Texas history. The school system starts by telling the story of true Texans. Unfortunately, some of those tales were what we called “stories.”

In college, I took a course called The History of Mexico. The course book used by Professor Macias (if I remember his name correctly) was a small book, less than 200 pages, called The Compact History of Mexico. What a wonderful course and wonderful book.

I have not looked at the book in years, even though I ordered a copy when writing this. I felt like…

From Anthony's list on history books which weave a wonderful tale, while making us laugh, scream, cry and think, while we are bowing and saying bravo at the same time!.