The Enlightened Army

by David Toscana

Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico's northern neighbor steal a large swath of the country in the Mexican-American War, but according to Matus it also denied him Olympic glory. Excluded from the 1924 Olympics, Matus ran his own parallel marathon and beat the time of the American who officially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477317775
• ISBN13: 9781477317778
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"