THE TWO ARGENTIANS
Rodell, Katherine
The Two Argentinas THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, by Ysabel F. Ren-nie. The Macmillan Co. $4. OUR AMERICAN NEIGHBORS, prepared by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Public Affairs Press....
...She has made a valuable contribution by her careful documentation, and her review of the last 100 years of Argentine political development makes today's nationalist government appear as a logical (if unfortunate, and perhaps ultimately tragic) manifestation...
...Rennie is just rehashing old truths...
...Rennie...
...Reviewed by Katherine Rodell ARGENTINA'S strange split personality—the contrast and conflict between modern, Europeanized Buenos Aires and the primitive provinces, the struggle between the land aristocracy and the rising industrial class—has always fascinated historians...
...Weil's The Argentine Riddle...
...In historical interpretation the obvious fact is often the most important one, and although every thoughtful book on Argentina from Sarmiento's to Felix Weil's has emphasized the dangerous lack of balance in Argentina's economic and political structure, it does not by any means follow that Mrs...
...Rennie's book again points up the fact that, in dismissing the present Argentine government as "Nazi," the American press has not only missed the significance of the Argentine revolution but has also underestimated its real danger...
...I should think that the book would be especially good for school children, although a good geography book should contain much of the same material...
...With this as her theme, she has written a history of Argentina in the last 100 years—from the time of the tyrant Rosas to the present—which is as lively and readable as it is sound...
...For a clear—and sobering—picture of Argentina today, no one could do better than to read this book, along with Dr...
...OUR American Neighbors is a reprint in book form of a series of pamphlets on the Latin American nations which was originally issued by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs...
...The dichotomy in the country is that of creole and European, protectionist and free trader, the provinces and Buenos Aires, or, as Sarmiento liked to put it, the poncho and the frac," says Mrs...
...There is a chapter on each of the 20 countries to the south of us and, while the text is sometimes a bit on the 12-year-old side, the very graphic Pictograph illustrations are excellent...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 20
