Heroes and Martyrs. Review of Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw's (eds.) <em>Heroes & Hero Cults in Latin America</em> (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).

Abstract

Do we need heroes? Whom do we select as our heroes? How do these individuals become mythologized? Reading Heroes & Hero Cults in Latin America, a title that perhaps would be more at home in the History Book Club  than on an academic reading list, raises these and other questions.