Paco Ignacio Taibo II

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Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power translation: Gregory Nipper isbn: 978-1-60486-407-6 (EPUB), 978-1-60486-408-3 (MOBI) formats: epub mobi published: 07/2010 pages: 128 price: 7.00 euros

Paco Ignacio Taibo II has lived in Mexico City since 1958 when his family fled from Spain to escape the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. Taibo II is a spanish leftist intellectual, historian, professor, journalist, social activist, union organizer, and world-renowned writer. Widely known for his policial novels, he is considered the founder of the neopolicial genre in Latin America and is the president of the International Association of Policial Writers. One of the most prolific writers in Mexico today, over 500 editions of his 51 books have been published in 29 countries and over a dozen languages, and include novels, narrative, historical essays, chronicles, and poetry.

Some of his novels have been mentioned among the "Books of the Year" by The New York Times, Le Monde, and the Los Angeles Times. He has received numerous awards including the Grijalbo, the Planeta/Joaquin Mortiz in 1992, the Dashiell Hammett three times for his political novels, and the 813 for the best police novel published in France. His biography of Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Ernesto Guevara, tambien conocido como el Che, 1996) has sold over half a million copies around the world and won the 1998 Bancarella Book of the Year award in Italy. After growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, Michael studied American history at UC Davis and San Francisco State University. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, where he intends to follow up on his work on Paul Goodman and the New Left with other studies related to postwar American culture and intellectual history.