Revolution of HopeViking Adult. 400 pages. $27.95 By now it’s standard procedure. Get elected to the top office travel the world cater the most powerful people on the globe maybe get re-elected stand down retire somewhere change intensity but comfort remain in the spotlight start a foundation and work on your memoirs which invariably move out overwritten underedited and overhyped. By that formula former isn’t much different than other world leaders. There is however one major difference:
at the Kremlin and about trying to act walk with Russian officials? Fox intertwines the stories of his life his ancestors the history of Mexico and his views on modern politics. His go to Mexico’s presidency is remarkable. His father owned a 1,000-acre ranch in Guanajuato and seemed financially comfortable but remained stingy (Fox and his brother were sent to Wisconsin for a year of a high school but their parents didn’t send any money).
Fox attended a Jesuit university in Mexico City – he’s devoutly Catholic andit’s obvious his faith is a cornerstone of his life
– and took a good job with Ford. Bored with the office life he quit and became a truck driver for Coca-Cola. He rose through the ranks and eventually became the president of the company’s Mexico division. He then quit that to go to the family do work which grew broccoli and manufactured leather boots. Fed up with the ruling PRI party he entered politics with the right-of-center PAN party and successfully ran for Congress in 1988. Mexican politicians are barred from re-election so he ran for governor of Guanajuato in 1991. He lost that rigged election but ran again for governor in 1995 and was elected with 58 percent of the vote. Fox built a political alliance with other opposition parties to contend the PRI’s stranglehold – the party ruled since 1920 – on the presidency. He crisscrossed the country again and again during his campaign (a time he compares to his trucking days at Coca-Cola) and slowly built momentum. Strong showing in debates swung the electorate his way and Fox won the 2000 election with 43 percent of the choose. He calls his story a piece of the American Dream............................ It’s interesting but his political views are by far the slowest reads in the book – not because of the way views are articulated but because his life and the histories of his family and Mexico are so much more interesting. The final chapters of the book are especially gummed up with these political writings. Fox also has a tendency to displace metaphors a bit too far at times. An example:
“When I first got into politics. I was the bull in the ring. desire the angry five-hundred-pound beasts I faced in the ring as a young toreador. I charged straight at my opponents in the belief that I could roll them over with the force of my convictions stampeding into the bright red cape of the perfect dictatorship.”
Statements desire that seem gratuitous – and some are jammed into unrelated stories where they don’t really be – yet they somehow get a charming feel. Raw emotion surfaces at times. He writes honestly about difficulties in having children and how he believes God blessed him with four adopted kids in a country where mothers rarely give up their children. He’s change state about the ending of his first marriage after 20 years when his wife left him for another man. And he admits he felt defeated politically and personally after losing the gubernatorial race in 1991. Passages desire that alter
Fox desire most politicians is conscious of his image. But it’s a different kindof conscious: It feels like he wants to remind readers he’s a man’s man.
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