{"product_id":"the-beginning-of-his-excellent-and-eventful-career-9781941196618","title":"The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am not the revolution...I am the instrument of another hand.\" So does Francisco \"Pancho\" Villa begin the tale of his rise from thief to warlord to the revolutionary leader of northern Mexico. By turns a confession and an act of seduction  The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career chronicles a country remaking itself through blood and violence  giving shape to the boy who would dare to step from anonymity into power through the inexorable force of his will. An exile at 16 after the murder of his familys landowner  Villa begins a journey through dusty desert villages and barren mountaintop camps where his principles are formed and tested by endemic injustice. Building a group of outlaws around him  Villa begins to wage a war on the landowning dons that control the state  but as the savagery increases and the betrayals multiply  the ascension within Villas command of the mysterious and sadistic Rodolfo Fierro puts Villas ideals  and his vision of the future of Mexico  to the test. Luminous  disturbing and powerful  The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career weaves history and drama into a driving tale of ambition and brutality  insisting that those who would remake the world must first set fire to the old.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647006597173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1941196616","price":27.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781941196618.jpg?v=1781685261","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-beginning-of-his-excellent-and-eventful-career-9781941196618","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}