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Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (born 16 September 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: Mexico: Biography of Power, Redeemers, and El pueblo soy yo (I am the people). He has also produced more than 500 television programs and documentaries about Mexico's history. His biographical, historical works, and his political and literary essays, which have reached a broad audience, have made him famous. Life and career He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1965-1969). He received a Doctorate in History from the Center of Historical Studies in El Colegio de México (1969-1974). He is a member of the Mexican Academy of History and the Mexican National College (El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)). He is also director of the publishing house Clío and director of Letras Libres, a cultural magazine. The Engineering Faculty shortly before the start of Mexican Movement of 1968 elected him university councillor. In 1979 he obtained the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México in 1977; guest professor at St Antony's College, Oxford, from October to December in 1981 and 1983; guest professor at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, from October to December 1987. Similarly, he was visiting professor at Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies in the autumn of 2013. At 24 years old, he obtained his first publication in Siempre! magazine, titled: “La saña y el terror” (“The viciousness and terror”), which tells of the Corpus Christi Thursday Massacre (which he witnessed). A year later he started to collaborate at Plural, Excélsior’s monthly cultural magazine. He started working at Vuelta in 1977, invited by Octavio Paz. He collaborated at Vuelta for more than 20 years, first as an editorial secretary from 1977 to 1981 and then as deputy director from 1981 to 1996. In 1991 he launched the publishing house and television producer Clío, of which he is the director. Since 1999, after Octavio Paz’s death, he has directed Vuelta’s cultural heir: Letras Libres, with editions in Mexico, Spain, and online. Since 1985 he has been an editorial writer for The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, El País, and Reforma. In 1990 he was elected member at the Mexican Academy of History and since 2005 he is a member of the Colegio Nacional in Mexico. Among other tasks, he has been a member of the board of directors at the Instituto Cervantes, the board of directors at Televisa, and the board of directors at Grupo Financiero Santander México (Mexican Bank). Works Books Caudillos culturales en la Revolución mexicana (1976), Siglo XXI Editores. Historia de la Revolución Mexicana. La reconstrucción económica. 1924-1928 (1977), El Colegio de México. Daniel Cosío Villegas: una biografía intelectual (1980), Joaquín Mortiz. Caras de la historia (1983), Joaquín Mortiz. Por una democracia sin adjetivos (1986), Joaquín Mortiz-Planeta. Biografía del poder, eight volumes: I. “Porfirio Díaz. Místico de la autoridad”; II. “Francisco I. Madero. Místico de la libertad”; III. “Emiliano Zapata. El amor a la tierra”; IV. “Francisco Villa. Entre el ángel y el fierro”; V. “Venustiano Carranza. Puente entre siglos”; VI. “Álvaro Obregón. El vértigo de la victoria”; VII. “Plutarco Elías Calles. Reformar desde el origen”; VIII. “Lázaro Cárdenas. General misionero” (1987), Fondo de Cultura Económica. Personas e ideas (1989), Vuelta. América Latina: el otro milagro (1991), Fundes. Textos heréticos (1992), Grijalbo. Siglo de caudillos: Biografía Política de México (1810-1910), (1994), Tusquets. Tiempo contado (1996), Océano. Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996 (1997), HarperCollins Publishers. La presidencia imperial (1997), Tusquets. La Historia cuenta (1998), Tusquets. Mexicanos eminentes (1999), Tusquets. Tarea política (2000), Tusquets. Travesía liberal (2003), Tusquets. La presencia del pasado (2005), Tusquets. Para salir de Babel (2006), Tusquets. Retratos personales (2007), Tusquets. El poder y el delirio (2008), Tusquets. De héroes y mitos (2010), Tusquets. Redeemers: Ideas and power in Latin America (2011), HarperCollins. Redentores: Ideas y poder en América Latina (2011), Random House. El arte de la biografía (2012), Random House. Octavio Paz. El poeta y la revolución (2014), Random House. Personas e ideas. Conversaciones sobre historia y literatura (2015), Debate. Caras de la historia I (2015), Debate. El nacimiento de las instituciones (2015), Tusquets. Por una democracia sin adjetivos, 1982-1996 (2016), Debate. Del desencanto al mesianismo, 1996-2006 (2016), Debate. Democracia en construcción, 2006-2016 (2016), Debate Caras de la historia II (2016), Debate. México: Biografía del poder (2017), Tusquets. El pueblo soy yo (2018), Debate. His essays have been collected by the Debate label of Penguin Random House Editorial Group in the Liberal Essayist collection, while his historical works are part of Enrique Krauze’s Historical Library series by Tusquets Editores. Television In his article titled "La misión de la televisión" (“Television’s mission”), published in 2013 in Reforma, Krauze quotes his stance on this media that he has been tied to for three decades: It’s not that, of course, television should take SEP’s place. Or that it should stop producing highly rated programs. It is, indeed, about television assuming a larger civic responsibility by producing high-level content, lasting programs recognized internationally […]. And, it is also about stimulating Mexico’s democratic culture. […] Television could be a splendid forum so public figures and citizens in general (students, scholars, business, military, and religious people, workers, and farmers) can debate (not just talk) about urgent subjects on our public agenda. He debuted on television in 1987 as the author of the series Biografía del Poder (Biography of Power), produced by the Film Production Center, and transmitted through the state’s network Imevisión. The following year he served as an advisor for the series Mexico, produced by Public Broadcasting Service (WGBH) in association with Blackwell Corporation from Boston. Along with Fausto Zerón-Medina in 1994, he wrote a soap opera titled El vuelo del águila (The Eagle's Flight) based on Porfirio Díaz’s life, produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa, starring Fabián Robles (young Porfirio Díaz), Humberto Zurita (Porfirio Díaz), and Manuel Ojeda (old Porfirio Díaz). Krauze is a producer of documental series México siglo XX, México nuevo siglo y Clío TV presenta since 1998, broadcast weekly on open television through Televisa’s network. Film Along with Alvin H. Perlmutter, Krauze produced Beyond Borders, Undocumented Mexican Americans (2016) directed by Micah Fink, co-produced by The Independent Production Fund (US), Clío (Mexico), and La Fáb.... Discover the Enrique Krauze popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Enrique Krauze books.