The dictator's seduction : politics and the popular imagination in the era of Trujillo / / Lauren Derby.

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillo s dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republic s capital, Santo Domingo.

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Superior document:American encounters/global interactions
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922
  • San Zenon and the making of Ciudad Trujillo
  • The master of ceremonies
  • Compatriotas! el jefe calls
  • Clothes make the man
  • Trujillo's two bodies
  • Papa Liborio and the morality of rule
  • Charisma and the gift of recognition.