Recollections of a Provincial Past: (Recuerdos de Provincia)
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino / Garrels, Elizabeth / Zatz, Asa
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish. Written in exile in 1850, the memoirs describe h...