From the Introduction by Frank Tannenbaum:
Dr. Brandenburg has written an interesting and broadly based book that seeks to explain how an undeveloped nation with a troubled and revolution-riddled history moved into the modern world. The changeover in the years that span 1910 to 1964, the period with which the author is primarily concerned, is dramatic. The Mexican story as told here suggests what a revolution can and can not do, and at what costs. The price in Mexico was high. The revolution took a million lives. It destroyed a ruling society; the "upper classes," from which the governors, generals, diplomats, landowners, intellectuals were drawn, were impoverished, expropriated, exiled or killed. The government, the constitutional system, the army the courts, the landholding system, peonage, and many things besides were swept away by the revolutionary tide. The people who came to replace those who were driven out were newcomers.
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