Calling all heroes : a manual for taking power /

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Author / Creator:	Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, 1949-
Imprint:	Oakland, Calif. : PM ; London : Turnaround [distributor], ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (120 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968 -- Fiction. Students -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Tlatelolco -- Fiction. Journalists -- Fiction. Journalists. Students -- Political activity. Mexico -- Mexico City. Mexico -- Mexico City -- Tlatelolco. Electronic books. Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227253

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ISBN:	9781604864090 1604864095 9781604864076 1604864079 9781604864083 1604864087 9781604862058 160486205X
Notes:	Translated from the Spanish. Print version record.
Summary:	The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable. The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he calls on the heroes of his youth?Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and D'Artagnan among them?to join him in launching a new movement of reform.
Other form:	Print version: Taibo, Paco Ignacio, 1949- Calling all heroes. Oakland, Calif. : PM ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2010 9781604862058

Table of Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Note; I. If You Weren't Here, Where Would You Be?; The Others' Version: A as in Accident; II. General Without an Army; The Others' Version: B as in Biography; III. Interview; The Others' Version: C as in Context; IV. The Decision to Appeal to the Heroes; The Others' Version: D as in Documents; V. Liliana, General Headquarters, Letters and Telegrams; The Others' Version: E as in Examination; VI. Shadows and Answers; The Others' Version: F as in Fiesta; VII. A Question, Several Questions; The Others' Version: G as in Grab.
VIII. The Arrival of the Characters and the Doubts of the HostThe Others' Version: H as in Hunches; IX. Strategy, Infirmary, and Mau Mau; The Others' Version: I as in Inertia; X. Momentous Meeting inthe Hospital Room; The Others' Version: J as in Justification; XI. Concerning the Insurrection; The Others' Version: K as in Kulture; XII. Concerning the Insurrection (II); The Others' Version: L as in Legend; XIII. Judicial Police and Musketeers; The Others' Version: M as in Movem.

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