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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Estados Unidos, ¿qué tanto conoce su historia? Todos necesitamos saber más acerca de esta tierra quequeremos. En esta historia apasionante de una nación, el pasado de nuestro paíscobra vida. Aquí tiene la historia de aquellos que escogimos para que nosguiaran y lo que hicieron con el asombroso poder que les dimos. De la valientey brillante mente del autor de gran éxito de ventas, William J. Bennett, llegaeste relato emocionante de las virtudes y vicios de nuestro gran país y losmuchos hombres y mujeres osados que lo convirtieron en la poderosa nación quees hoy. Una historia arrasante ...

El gran historiador inglés, Eric Hobsbawm, en su texto Rebeldes primitivos (1983, p. 264), califica la Violencia en Colombia como "la mayor movilización armada de campesinos (ya sea como guerrilleros, bandoleros o grupos de autodefensa) en la historia reciente del hemisferio occidental, con la posible excepción de determinados períodos de la Revolución mexicana". A partir de esta consideración, usando la categoría de bandolero social y explotando cientos de documentos del Archivo Germán Guzmán, el libro analiza el bandolerismo en Colombia durante la llamada Violencia tardía, aquel...