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October 1964 Vol. XXV, No. 10

WHITHERLATIN AMERICA? Carlos Fuentes and others. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1963. 144 pp. $3.00. Reprint of 12 art;!.clesfrom the Monthly Review, presenting out-of-the-ordinary aspects of the situation in Latin American COWl- tries.- /The head of the Peasant Leagues in Brazil writes on that country under the title: 'Brazil, a Christian Country "-.7 A HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICAFROM THE BEGINNINGSTO THE PRESENT. Hubert Herring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. 845 pp. Maps. $10.75. This edition of a magnificently comprehensive one-volume history contains only slight corrections of the first edition, 1954.

A CULTURALHISTORY OF SPANISH AMERICA:FROM CONQUESTTO INDEPENDENCE. Mariano Picon-Salas, Trans. by Irving A. Leonard. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. 192 pp. $1.95. A poetic and meaningful interpretation, by a Venezuelan essayist and diplomat - a real contribution to intercultural understanding ,

INVIsmLE LATIN AMERICA. Samuel Shapiro. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. 180 pp. $3.95. A very informative and stimu- lating book, mostly about the life and living conditions of the 150 million "mute, repressed" peoples - the "invisible" Latin Americans - who constitute the "vast reservoir of revolution". Takes Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and Bolivia as illustrative of different aspects of the problem of invisible Latin America.

LATIN AMERICA: EVOWTION OR EXPLOSION? Mildred Adams, ed , New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1963. '2:77pp. $3.25. Nineteen wide-ranging and competent essays by as many noted specialists on Latin America, from both Latin America and the U.S.A., dealing with such major themes as inter-country and inter-continental relationships, "internal tensions and preconditions for economic and social development ", and "Latin America and the European Common Mar- ket", with a concluding chapter on the question in the book title. The book grew out of a Conference on Tension in De- velopment in the Western Hemisphere, held in Salvador, Brazil, August 6-11, 1962.

THE WINDS OF REVOLUTION: LATIN AMERICATODAY - AND TOMORROW. Tad Szulc, London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. 308 pp. 42/ -. A noted journalist (for 6 years South American correspondent of The New York Times), who is familiar at first hand with every country in South America, provides here both a detailed description and a serious analy- sis of the critical nature of the current situation in the 20 Latin American nations.

THE COMING EXPLOSIONIN LATIN AMERICA. Gerald Clark. New York: David McKay Company, 1963. 436 pp. $6.75. First-hand reporting on extensive travel and observation in all countries of Latin America, by an associate editor of The Montreal Star. Emphasizes the pervasiveness and power of Castroism and the inevitableness of revolution of a kind and on a scale not hitherto known even on the "continent of revolution".

THE CHRISTIAN CHALLENGEIN LATIN AMERICA: A SYMPOSIUM. Maryknoll Fathers, ed , Maryknoll, N.Y.: Mary- knoll Publications, 1964. 86 pp. $1.50. Seven brief but significant papers presented at the annual meeting in 1963 of the Catholic Association for International Peace. Authors include Monsignor Joseph B. Gremillian, able Director of the Dept. for Socio-Economic Development of the Catholic Relief Service, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Dr. Frank Tan- nenbaum, Professor Emeritus of Latin American History at Columbia University, and Joseph A. Beirne, Secretary of The American Institute for Free Labor Development.

THE LATIN-AMERICANCHURCH AND THE COUNCIL. Francis Houtart, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Bogota (Colombia): International Office of Social Studies of FERES,1963. 71 pp. n, p. Conclusions reached, for presentation to the Second Vatican Council, from a four-year study in which the International Federation of Institutes for Social and Socio- Religious Studies (FERES)analyzed the current situation of Roman Catholicism in Latin America. A most useful docu- ment for Protestants as well. Available in either English or Spanish (latter edition has 62 pp.).

THE CONFUCT BETWEENCHURCH AND STATE IN LATIN AMERICA. Frederick B. Pike, ed , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. 239 pp. $2.50. Paperback. Twenty very pertinent essays by a wide variety of persons, comprehending the topic from the early 16th century to the present. Amazingly candid and self-critical. Editor is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame.

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