When the Romance Ended

Katherine Hite is an assistant professor of political science at Vassar College and is a coeditor of The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation.

"This is an important, caring and respectful book documenting the evolution of ideological perspectives and political attitudes within the Chilean left during the period 1968-1998...Without a doubt, this is an important book for scholars of identity politics and for general readers interested in Chilean politics." -- Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies "Highly suggestive for understanding political leadership... and the leaders' personal stories, which Hite allows her interviewees to narrate in long, direct excerpts, make for gripping reading" -- Choice "The author effectively addresses questions of political identtity, leadership, and change through the lens of interviews with Chilean leaders of the Left. She contributes to our understanding of the transformation of the Left universally and the evolution of political culture in the Chilean national setting. Her conceptualization of individual political trajectories provides a powerful explanatory framework to comprehend the formulation of political thought and action." -- Jadwiga E. Pieper, The Historian

• 1. Interpreting Political Identity 2. Chile's Revolutionary Generation 3. The Binds and Bonds of Party Loyalty 4. Personal Loyalists and the Meaning of Allendismo 5. Exile and the Thinkers 6. The Return: Political Entrepreneurs and the Chilean Transition Conclusion: Political Identity, Post-Authoritarianism of the 1990s, and the Politics of the Possible