{"product_id":"opening-mexico-the-making-of-a-democracy-9780374226688","title":"Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy\u003c\/strong\u003e by Preston, Julia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374226688.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Story of Mexicos political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters\n\nOpening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexicos recent politics.\n\nMexicos Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called \"the perfect dictatorship.\" But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. Opening Mexico recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexicos Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000.\n\nOpening Mexico dramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the countrys elite. It is the best book to date about the modern history of the United States southern neighbor-and is a tale rich in implications for the spread of democracy worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986982400053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374226687","price":27.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374226688_a76b99a2-9189-442a-a97f-6e2349009907.jpg?v=1778902197","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/opening-mexico-the-making-of-a-democracy-9780374226688","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}