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Presents the life of the leader who became president of Mexico, instituted many reforms, and led his country in a war of independence.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 6 Up Benito Juarez was a poor Zapotec Indian who, like his contemporary Abraham Lincoln, struggled to educate himself as a lawyer and worked his way up through the ranks. Known for his honesty and hatred of injustice, Juarez became the president of Mexico during a time of great turbulence and managed to provide firm leadership for the country despite its many problems. Wepman gives a fair and balanced portrait of Benito Juarez. As the focus is on the public rather than the private person, the book provides an insightful look at this unstable period of Mexican historythe time of the reforms. Well-known figures from both U.S. and Mexican history appear. Many illustrations dot the textto the point of making the pages too cluttered and busy. Dennis C. Tucker, Bethel College Library, Mishawaka, Ind. - (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 6-10. Benito Jurez was a Zapotec Indian who rose from his humble peasant origins to become president of Mexico in the nineteenth century. His achievement was remarkable, for at the time, Spanish and church rule and a rigid class system insured that Indian people remained at the bottom of society. Wepman's biography of Jurez is also an account of nineteenth-century Mexico's turbulent history. Jurez lived through and fought against a series of autocratic, conservative rulers; it was Jurez who ordered the death of Maximilian, who had been installed by Napoleon as emperor but was overthrown by a Mexican rebellion. Reproductions of prints, photographs, and paintings illustrate the book, which will be of interest to students of Mexican history or the Mexican view of this country's development. DMW. 972'.07 (B) Juarez, Benito / Mexico Presidents Biography [CIP] 86-6802