In a rigorously researched biography and through graceful prose, Daniela Spenser narrates the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a man who reflects the complexity of post-revolutionary Mexico, the hopes it awoke as much as the failed projects it left behind.

Daniela Spenser, Ph.D. (1994), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is a professor at Centro de Investigaciones у Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. Her research focuses on the history of communism and the Cold War in Mexico and Latin America.