Joseph U. Lenti - Redeeming the Revolution

It is a clich to say that a scholar accrues many debts while researching and writing, although in this case the adage applies. This book, and more broadly, my education, was completed only through the generosity of droves of people who have supported me during the span of my careers at the University of New Mexico and Eastern Washington University. Originating from a seminar paper written at UNM in 2005, this project grew and saw its development nurtured and often corrected by Linda B. Hall, she who has been a true friend and mentor to me since I began graduate school in 2002. Through her edits and revisions of my work, her advice and ideas, our countless excursions, sporting events, and lunches in the United States and Mexico, and her endless generosity in writing letter after support letter on my behalf, Linda guided me along the academic path and made my journey to the ranks of the professional historian a rich and joyful experience.

My work, as well as my sanity, also benefited from a revision or two offered by Brad Shreve, Erik Loomis, Kathleen McIntyre, Colin Snider, Margarita Ochoa, Nydia Martnez, Brian Stauffer, Will Veeder, Yann Kerevel, Lucy Grinnell, Chris Vigil, Meg Frisbee, Danielle Scott, Frank Salazar, Frank Alvrez, and Brandon Morgan, at UNM , some of whom read parts of the dissertation but more generally were the kind of friends any human being needs to endure. Judy Bieber, Manuel Garca y Griego, Greg Crider, Jrgen Buchenau, Michael Snodgrass, Amelia Kiddle, Mara L. O. Muoz, Annemarie Frohnhoefer, and the late Adrian Bantjesall of whose work I admire greatlyoffered valuable comments on selected chapters. John Hart, to whose fan club I also subscribe, read the complete manuscript and offered important revisions. Johns known hatred of acrobabble (i.e., the overuse of acronyms) and his commitment to making great history read like great literature have inspired my writing since the beginning. Last, folks at the University of Nebraska Press, Bridget Barry, Emily Wendell, Sara Springsteen, and Joy Margheim in particular, have been generous in their support of this project, and its quality is all the better because of it.

Thank-yous are also due to friends in Washington, and in particular to Estban and Elisa Rodrguez, Majid and Sheki Sharifi, Christina and Martn Garca, Joe and Diana Sperry-Navarro, Matt and Priscilla Rabinovitch, Ann Le Bar, Bob and Riva Dean, Larry and Renee Cebula, and Elisha Miranda and Alex Ramrez, who shared their laughter, homes, food, and plenty of wine with me while Ive resided in the great Northwest. The same can be said for each and every member of the Department of History at Eastern Washington Universitya group Ive enjoyed the camaraderie of for the past seven years. Thank you Liping Zhu, Michael Conlin, Bob Dean, Ann Le Bar, Nydia Martnez, John Collins, Larry Cebula, Ed Slack, Laura Hodgman, Kathleen Huttenmaier, Monica Stenzel, Bill Youngs, and Valerie Burnett for being the kinds of colleagues all budding teachers require to grow and thrive. In the same vein I have benefited from the vitality and knowledge of Mayra Villalobos, Michael Edwards, Samantha de Abreu, Toms Shalloe, Nicolle Southwick, Ian Pettus, Logan Camporeale, and Ronald Scheckall former students and themselves budding Latinamericanists. Special mention should also be made of Douglas and the incomparable baristas at The Mason Jar in Cheney, a coffeehouse at which I wrote a significant portion of this book. Last but not least, Vickie Rutledge Shields, the former dean of the College of Social Sciences at EWU, has been indispensable to this project, heaping encouragement and funding on me that has allowed short-term trips to Mexico.

Fellowships Ive won from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico have funded extended stays in Mexico filled with adventures, missteps, and triumphs worthy of their own book-length studies. In nearly every research setting Ive been blessed with assistance from excellent people, and standing out among the scores of archivists, librarians, phototechnicians, and other professionals whove aided this project are Diego Castillo Collins, Alma del Carmen Vsquez Morales, Erika Gutirrez, Mximo de Jess Mndez, and Edgar Paul Ros Rosasall at the Archivo General de la Nacin. I am also grateful to Mara Luisa Izquierdo, who shared her expertise and home with me one summer, and Virginia Morales, a former student who helped me locate images in Mexican institutions in 2015. A special mention must also be made of Linda Arnold, not an employee of the AGN per se, but an institution unto herself who has over the course of decades compiled an electronic catalog that is indispensable for anyone interested in writing the history of Mexico. Although not included formally in this books bibliography, the Gua Arnold was perhaps its most important resource.