Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America The Ideas of Laureano Gomez

Laureano Gomez was president of Columbia in the early 1950s until overthrown by a military coup. He was also, for some fifty years, the leading exponent of Latin American conservatism, a political philosophy with roots in both nineteenth-century politics and religion. Focusing on Gomez, and other prominent conservative politicians, Henderson traces the evolution of Latin American conservatism and demonstrates the scope of its influence throughout the continent.Henderson, James D. is the author of 'Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America The Ideas of Laureano Gomez' with ISBN 9780896801486 and ISBN 0896801489.