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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1811–1888
A self-taught teacher who rose to become president of Argentina, he wrote with unusual force about education, politics, and national identity. His best-known book, Facundo, helped make him one of the most influential voices in 19th-century Latin America.
4 Audiobooks
Facundo
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Argentina, Legend and History
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre
Estados Unidos
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Educación común en el Estado de Buenos-Aires
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
About the author
Born in San Juan in 1811, he began life far from power and largely educated himself while working as a teacher. He became a journalist, public intellectual, and reformer, and his ideas put him at the center of Argentina’s fierce political struggles.
Years of exile in Chile shaped much of his writing. During that period he published Facundo in 1845, a book that mixed biography, politics, and social criticism to explore the conflict between what he saw as “civilization” and “barbarism” in Argentine life.
From 1868 to 1874 he served as president of Argentina. He is especially remembered for pushing public education, helping expand schools and teacher training, and for the energy with which he linked learning, modernization, and national development. He died in Asunción, Paraguay, in 1888.