Daniela Spenser is a professor at Centro de Investigaciones ¿ Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. Her research focuses on the history of communism and the Cold War in Mexico and Latin America.

A stirring new biography of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, one of Latin America's most important labour leaders.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1 Changing Times and Ideas

1 Family
1
The Village
2
Children
3
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
4
The Wise Man
5
The Family

2 Knowledge and Power
1
Renewal
2
The Break
3
On the Campaign Trail
4
From the Government Palace
5
On the Road to the Chamber of Deputies
6
The Trip
7
The Polemical Dispute
8
Ideological Passion

3 Exodus
1
In the CROM
2
Collapse
3
The Labour Law
4
The Road to the Left

Part 2 Crusades

4 A Journey into the World of the Future
1
The Preparations
2
The Trip
3
Different Perspectives
4
Back in Mexico
5
The President and the Leader
6
The Gide Case

5 The Foundations of the Nation
1
The Preparations
2
The First Pillar
3
Into Action
4
The Schism
5
Disunity
6
The President and the Leader

6 A Continental Feat
1
In Santiago de Chile
2
The Planning
3
In the United States
4
In Europe
5
The Founding Congress
6
To the Attack

Part 3 War: Threshold of a Better World?

7 Fight Fascism!
1
The Defeat of the Spanish Republic
2
Exile
3
Face to Face with Leon Trotsky
4
The Pact and Its Violation
5
In Soviet Intelligence
6
The Undesirable Anti-fascists

8 The Illusory Unity
1
On the Campaign Trail
2
The Victory
3
The Farewell
4
The Re-election
5
The Elusive Unity

9 The Fragile Harmony
1
The Latin American Panorama
2
The Congress
3
The Celebrated Trip
4
The Catavi Massacre
5
Coups and Blows
6
From Montevideo to Caracas
7
From Philadelphia to Cali
8
The Elusive Harmony

Part 4 Animosities and Confrontations

10 For the Renewal of the Nation
1
The Future
2
On the Campaign Trail
3
The Roundtable
4
Elections in the CTM
5
The Expulsion
6
The Crisis of the Nation

11 For the Spilled Blood
1
The Postwar Map
2
In London
3
In Paris
4
In the Other Europe
5
Confrontations
6
In People 's China

12 Emancipation
1
Removing Obstacles
2
On an Inspection Tour
3
In Lima
4
The Third Congress
5
The Oil Workers
6
Failed Emancipation

Part 5 On the Fronts of the Cold Peace

13 Rearmament
1
The People 's Party
2
UGOCM
3
Back on the Campaign Trail
4
Aftermath of Defeat
5
The Succession
6
The Cold Peace

14 Mission Completed
1
Anti-communist Liberalism
2
Liberal Internationalism
3
In Decline
4
The CTAL Dies in Bucharest
5
The CTAL Completed Its Historic Mission

15 The Road to 1968
1
PPS
2
Against the Current
3
On the Final Campaign Trail
4
Schism in the Party
5
1968

Epilogue: Testament and Testimonies

Bibliography and Works Cited
Index
Illustrations