Attention to Mexico's history after 1940 stands in the shadow of the
country's epic revolution of 1910-1923, and historians and scholars tend
to bring their focus on Mexican history to a close with the end of the
Lázaro Cárdenas presidency in 1940. Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity,
Politics, and Corruption examines Mexican politics in the wake of
Cardenismo, and the dawn of Miguel Alemán's presidency. This new book
focuses on the decade of the 1940s, and analyzes Alemanismo into the
early years of the 1950s. Based upon a decade of intensive
investigation, Mexico in the 1940s is the first broad and substantial
study of the political life of the Mexican nation during this period,
thus opening a new era to historical investigation. Mexico in the 1940s
offers a unique interpretation of the country's domestic politics during
this period, including an explanation of how political leaders were able
to reverse the course of the Mexican Revolution; an original
interpretation of corruption in Mexican political life, a phenomenon
that did not end in the 1940s; and an analysis of the relationship
between the U.S. media interests, the Mexican state, and the Mexican
media companies that still dominates mass communication today. Mexico in
the 1940s is an excellent volume for courses in Mexican history.