At the height of his glory in the mid-1820s, Simón Bolívar was simultaneously liberator-president of Greater Colombia (which then included what are today Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador), dictator of ...

Deep into Marie Arana's wonderful new biography of Simón Bolívar, "the George Washington of South America," there's a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It's 1816, and Bolívar has set sail ...

Deep into Marie Arana’s wonderful new biography of Simón Bolívar, “the George Washington of South America,” there’s a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It’s 1816, and Bolívar has set sail ...

This timely and stirring narrative, with breaks for interpretation and a final pause for empathetic appraisal, is the first major English-language biography of "the Liberator" in half a century.

During his glorious military career he logged 75,000 miles on horseback. Some might slyly suggest he also logged 75,000 lovers. But as "The Liberator" that his admirers call him, or as the libertine ...