Germán Carrera Damas is retired professor of history at the Central University of Venezuela and has served as Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. His many books include El culto a Bolívar and Una nación llamada Venezuela.Elizabeth Lowe teaches in the MS in Translation and Interpreting program at New York University. She is the translator of Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha.

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• A Foreword to the English Edition of Rómulo histórico Author's Preface to the English Translation Translator's NoteBasic GlossaryIntroductory Essay1. The Initial Framework for Rómulo Betancourt's Historical Personality2. The Early Education of Rómulo Betancourt as a Political Militant: Circumstances and Factors that Shaped His Basic Historical Personality3. Rise of a Marxist Revolutionary Leader. Groundwork for a Theory of the Democratic Venezuelan Revolution4. Toward a Venezuelan Revolutionary Theory of Democracy5. Revising Venezuelan Democratic Aspirations in the Context of the Repercussions of the Second World War6. The Strategy to Launch the Democratic Revolution7. The Design and Institutionalization of the First Liberal Democratic Republic of Venezuela8. The Third Exile9. The Ideological Foundations and Political Process of Reinstatement of the Liberal Democratic Republic10. Overcoming the Direct and Indirect Repercussions of the Cold War in the Reestablishment of the Liberal Democratic Republic11. The Overall Assessment of the Installation and Consolidation of the Socio-Political Liberal Democratic Regime in Venezuela: 1945-196412. Rómulo Betancourt in History: The Historiographical Reckoning and His Own AssessmentConclusions

Germán Carrera Damas is retired professor of history at the Central University of Venezuela and has served as Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. His many books include El culto a Bolívar and Una nación llamada Venezuela.Elizabeth Lowe teaches in the MS in Translation and Interpreting program at New York University. She is the translator of Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha.

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• A Foreword to the English Edition of Rómulo histórico Author's Preface to the English Translation Translator's NoteBasic GlossaryIntroductory Essay1. The Initial Framework for Rómulo Betancourt's Historical Personality2. The Early Education of Rómulo Betancourt as a Political Militant: Circumstances and Factors that Shaped His Basic Historical Personality3. Rise of a Marxist Revolutionary Leader. Groundwork for a Theory of the Democratic Venezuelan Revolution4. Toward a Venezuelan Revolutionary Theory of Democracy5. Revising Venezuelan Democratic Aspirations in the Context of the Repercussions of the Second World War6. The Strategy to Launch the Democratic Revolution7. The Design and Institutionalization of the First Liberal Democratic Republic of Venezuela8. The Third Exile9. The Ideological Foundations and Political Process of Reinstatement of the Liberal Democratic Republic10. Overcoming the Direct and Indirect Repercussions of the Cold War in the Reestablishment of the Liberal Democratic Republic11. The Overall Assessment of the Installation and Consolidation of the Socio-Political Liberal Democratic Regime in Venezuela: 1945-196412. Rómulo Betancourt in History: The Historiographical Reckoning and His Own AssessmentConclusions

Germán Carrera Damas is retired professor of history at the Central University of Venezuela and has served as Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. His many books include El culto a Bolívar and Una nación llamada Venezuela.Elizabeth Lowe teaches in the MS in Translation and Interpreting program at New York University. She is the translator of Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha.

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• A Foreword to the English Edition of Rómulo histórico Author's Preface to the English Translation Translator's NoteBasic GlossaryIntroductory Essay1. The Initial Framework for Rómulo Betancourt's Historical Personality2. The Early Education of Rómulo Betancourt as a Political Militant: Circumstances and Factors that Shaped His Basic Historical Personality3. Rise of a Marxist Revolutionary Leader. Groundwork for a Theory of the Democratic Venezuelan Revolution4. Toward a Venezuelan Revolutionary Theory of Democracy5. Revising Venezuelan Democratic Aspirations in the Context of the Repercussions of the Second World War6. The Strategy to Launch the Democratic Revolution7. The Design and Institutionalization of the First Liberal Democratic Republic of Venezuela8. The Third Exile9. The Ideological Foundations and Political Process of Reinstatement of the Liberal Democratic Republic10. Overcoming the Direct and Indirect Repercussions of the Cold War in the Reestablishment of the Liberal Democratic Republic11. The Overall Assessment of the Installation and Consolidation of the Socio-Political Liberal Democratic Regime in Venezuela: 1945-196412. Rómulo Betancourt in History: The Historiographical Reckoning and His Own AssessmentConclusions