Capítulos

Overview and Introduction
Part One : A new earth
Part Two: Timothy Tucker. ESQ.
Part Three : Double transformation
Part Four : Worthy dinner for dick
Part Five: Colonel Dick Dobs
Part Six: Disowned
Part Seven : Gumbo to tucker to dobs
Appendix: Walker´s Defense at his Trial
Illustration acknowledgments / bibliography / Index

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William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 1: The crescent city., Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 2: The California, Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 3: Nicaragua, Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 4: War of liberation, Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 5: Truxillo, Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

Favored of the Gods, Biography of William Walker

William Walker. The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny. Book 2: The California, Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

Autor: Alejandro Bolaños Geyer

Editorial: Privately printed

Lugar de publicación: Lake Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

Año: 1989

Páginas: 423

Descripción:
William Walker (1824-1860) the “Gray-Eye Man of Destiny,” was the hottest news personality between the Mexican War and the Civil War-for a time the most talked of figure in the United States. Yet today probably not one U.S. citizen in ten thousand has ever heard of William Walker, a lost character in American history. But although forgotten even in his home state of Tennessee, Walker is still vividly remembered in Central America as a devil with horns and a tail. Elementary school books proudly acclaim the national War of 1856-57, when the ruthless imperialistic invader William Walker and his Yankee mercenaries were driven out of Nicaragua by the freedom fighters of the five Central American republics. William Walker was a “quiet, modest student” before he was suddenly transformed in 1849 into the “bold, daring, dauntless revolutionist and warrior”. The great change in his character, which occurred on the death of his fiancée, has never been explained satisfactorily. His many shifts in occupation from doctor to lawyer to journalist and to soldier of fortune have never been explained either. Walker remains much a mystery today as he was to his contemporaries, even to his closest friends. These pages record the process of unraveling the mystery of the “Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny,” unlocking the hidden springs of Walker´s mind; and they bring into sharp focus the stormy scenes during the early stages of U.S. imperialism climaxing in the Mexican War, his forays into Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras, until his death by firing squad at Truxillo in 1860, are the subjects of these five books: Book Two The Californias: follows Walker from 1850 to 1855: journalist, lawyer, democratic politician and Manifest Destiny filibuster in California. The story is carried on through Walker´s crusade against crime, siring the infamous San Francisco Vigilantes; and, most importantly, it brings to light the clandestine slavery schemers —under President Pierce´s Secretary of War Jefferson Davis— masterminding Walker´s expedition against Mexico in connection with the Gadsden Purchase.

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La lucha por el poder: El poder o la guerra

de Enrique Bolanos Geyer

Este es un compendio de la historia de Nicaragua desde su independencia de España hasta nuestros días -comienzos del siglo XXI- vista a través de esa persistente contienda fratricida entre los partidos políticos y entre sus caudillos por alcanzar el poder y atornillarse, si posible por toda la vida, en el sillón del poder ejecutivo.