Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argenti
Portrait, c. 1874
Façade of Sarmiento's childhood home in San Juan, Argentina.
1845 portrait of Sarmiento during his exile in Chile, by Franklin Rawson.
Sarmiento portrayed by Ignacio Baz.
Facundo
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Civilization and Barbarism: Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, later published and better known as Facundo, is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and journalist who became the s
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
…of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850, he was frequently in exile, and wrote in both Chile and in Argentina. His most famous work was Facundo, a critique of Juan Manuel de Rosas, that Sarmiento wrote while working for the newspaper El Progreso during his exile in Chile. The book brought him…
The cover of the original version from 1845.
Portrait of Rosas by Raymond Monvoisin
Portrait of Sarmiento at the time of his exile in Chile; by Franklin Rawson
The Argentine plains, or pampas. For Sarmiento, this bleak, featureless geography was a key factor in Argentina's "failure" to achieve civilization by the mid-19th century.