Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution

Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922) occupies a unique position as both a hero in the revolutionary mythology of modern Mexico and a forerunner of the political and social activism of twentieth-century Mexican-Americans. Colin MacLachlan, through his analysis of court records, tells the tragic, fascinating story of this important revolutionary and anarchist who died in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, the victim of judicial repression.

Colin M. MacLachlan is Professor of History at Tulane University. He is the author of Spain's Empire in the New World (California 1988), and co-author with Jaime E. Rodriguez O. of The Forging of the Cosmic Race (California 1980; expanded edition 1990), which won the Hubert Herring Memorial Award. John Mason Hart, author of Revolutionary Mexico (California, paperback 1989), is Professor of History at the University of Houston.