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Luis Candelas, el bandido castizo de Madrid -nacido en el barrio de Lavapiés-, es parte de la historia de nuestra ciudad. Y es el único bandido urbano. Su ingenio y habilidad mental para llevar a cabo los robos le crearon una aureola de leyenda que hizo que se le atribuyeran más delitos de los cometidos realmente. Luis Candelas gozaba de simpatía y popularidad entre el pueblo de Madrid. Anteponía su ingenio a la violencia, presumía de que jamás hubiera cometido un delito de sangre y , disfrazado la mayoría de las veces, cometió una serie de robos que le dieron tanta fama pero... su...

El gigante inquieto nos cuenta la historia de los Estados Unidos en los tiempos, cambiantes y revueltos, que van de la caída de Nixon, en 1974, a la presidencia de G.W. Bush en 2001. Patterson no sólo nos habla aquí de los grandes hitos de la política internacional –el fin de la guerra fría, la revolución iraní, Bosnia, la Guerra del Golfo...- y de las figuras dominantes de la época, como Reagan o Clinton, sino que presta una atención especial, y en esto reside uno de sus rasgos más innovadores y atractivos, a la evolución interior de la sociedad norteamericana: a fenómenos de...

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...