Introduction: from college boys to cadillac revolutionaries -- Coming of age in revolutionary Mexico City -- Entering the establishment -- Alemán's revolution -- Toward a better good neighbor policy -- Away from Alemanismo -- Conclusion: of myths and miracles -- Epilogue: Alemán after Alemanismo
Summary
Using a wide array of new archival sources, Alexander demonstrates that the transformative political decisions made by civilian government officials, after the 1946 election, represented both their collective values as a generation and their effort to adapt those values to the realities of the Cold War
