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Adventures with Don Luquitas: Exploring Our Obligations as Biographers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2018

Eric Van Young
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What is our obligation, as biographers or historians, to the people we write about? I ask this question in the context of my own writing of a biography, a project in which I have been engaged for nearly 20 years, that is now, I thank God, drawing to a close. The subject of the book is Lucas Alamán, the nineteenth-century Mexican conservative statesman, historian, and entrepreneur. Born in 1792, he died in 1853, a few months into the last government of perennial president Antonio López de Santa Anna, of whose regime he had been the chief architect and whom he served in its early weeks as chief minister.

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The Americas , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 453 - 462
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2018 

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