| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, 1795–1853. By Will Fowler. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. xv + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $69.50.)

This biography is important because José María Tornel y Mindívil was not only one of Mexico's leading politicians, but also the best friend of Antonio López de Santa Anna. Because this is a well-researched study by one of the foremost experts of the period, it offers a rare view into the complex events that characterized early nineteenth-century Mexico. 1

Tornel began as a Creole patriot who supported independence from Spain. Liberal in his youth, Tornel met Santa Anna in 1820; they had much in common in that they were both from wealthy Veracruz families, as well as being politically ambitious. . . .

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