Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a writer and journalist who would become the seventh president of Argentina. His 1845 book, «Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism» is considered a cornerstone of Latin American literature, a work of creative non-fiction that illustrates the region's development, modernization, power, and culture. Literary critic Roberto González Echevarría describes the work as «the most important book written by a Latin American in any discipline or genre.» Sarmiento wrote...
