The Mexican Revolution, 1914-1915; the Convention of Aguascalientes

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning what the Revolution was all about. This is a small volume, but it is all distilled here. Here is what it says on the inside of the dust jacket:"A tumultuous, complex, and highly significant period in Mexican history is here made both interesting and intelligible. Important to Mr. Quirk's dramatic story of battles, personal rivalries, poltical debates, and revolutionary proclamations is the role playede by the United States, particularly by Woodrow Wilson.The author has chosen to emphasize a decisive year in the Revolution during which dictatorship received its deathblow with the overthrow and exile of President Huerta. He also describes and analyzes the numerous schismatic revolutionary movements which occurred in the wake of Madero's assassination and Huerta's rise to power in 1912, movements led by Carranza, Sapate, Obregon, Villa, and others.Here too is the first adequate explanation of the Zapata revolution in the deep south of Mexico and of Francisco Villa's place in the drama. Both men are cast in their proper roles: leaders of a complicated social and economic revolution. The author further shows that through victory was lost to Zapata and Villa in the sense that they failed to achieve personal mastery of Mexico, it was won in the sense that the principles for which they fought ultimately prevailed."