The Education of a Radical: An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua

by Michael Johns

"I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else." --From the preface

When Michael Johns joined a Sandinista militia in 1983, a fellow revolutionary dubbed him a r?bano, a radish: red on the outside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292743866
• ISBN13: 9780292743861
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"