Author: Joseph Criscenti

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781555873516

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, is best known as an educator and as the author of Civilization and Barbarism: The Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, generally referred to as El Facundo. The contributors to this volume call attention to other facets of Sarmiento's life and to the results of the programs he encouraged.