Daniel Chavez: 11 books

The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua...

It is 1925, and the little town of Humbar is just getting by, like most Midwestern towns of the day. Some of its citizens are fairly well-off for the time, others live basically just day to day. The biggest threat the town faces is from the dam at Dagone Canyon, which periodically overflows during...

This is the continuing story of Marcelino and the Curse of the Gold Frog that ended in 1920. After the family moves to Texas, the responsible men work hard at their jobs, but Tacito and his cantankerous father work hard at avoiding jobs and creating their own style of mischief and chaos, much of which...

The late 1800s in Northern Arizona was not a time of peaceful coexistence between the Whites and Apache. Turbulent times and a sickly infant meant inevitable death for an indian baby. The baby, Chidah, was a crybaby. Apache customs dictated that these types of infants must be killed, because concealment...

During your pregnancy, lots of attention is focused on how your bouncing bundle of joy will bring changes to your family's life. The nine months before that momentous occasion, though, can also be a time of many changes. This article has helpful tips and advice about the changes and questions that...

Marcelino was born in a remote Mexican village in the late 1800s. Life was tolerable until his loving mother’s death, when his conniving father gave him to an uncle. The uncle took him to his farm in Texas, where his wife and sons refused to accept Marcelino into the family, and they torturously...

Abbey Rhodes has dreams. Big dreams of finding Mr. Right and being the mother of many children. Not so uncommon for a young girl, but Abbey is far from common. Brought up in an anti-social household, she retreats to her imagination where unicorns and rainbows are her only friends. Abbey discovers...

“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.” Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now,...

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...

The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes,...

From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics...