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In a voice finding just the right midpoint between an academic tone and a sense of fandom and fun, award-winning narrator Robert Fass takes listeners on a deep dive into the history and cultural background of a character who sold millions of books and spawned dozens of films before Batman and the Lone Ranger popped up in comics and on the radio in the late 1930s.-- AudioFile A wonderfully fascinating account of a pop specter that has long haunted North America: Zorro, a settler-colonial avenger brought to life by Stephen J. C. Andes's dogged archival research and sharp interpretation. -- Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia An exhilarating, dust-kicking ride through the actual origins and history of the first hemispheric Latinx superhero: Zorro...[a] swashbuckler of a ride. -- Frederick Luis Aldama, editor of Tales from la Vida In a voice finding just the right midpoint between an academic tone and a sense of fandom and fun, award-winning narrator Robert Fass takes listeners on a deep dive into the history and cultural background of a character who sold millions of books and spawned dozens of films before Batman and the Lone Ranger popped up in comics and on the radio in the late 1930s...It's the search for a historic Latin-American prototype that will keep the listener enthralled. -- AudioFile

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Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award. He has earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Francisco Goldman's Say Her Name, one of AudioFile magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2011. Stephen J. C. Andes is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the author of The Mysterious Sofia and The Vatican and Catholic Activism of Mexico and Chile.

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