This is the story of events set in motion in South Texas when the anarchist Plan of San Diego was set between 1915 and 1917. Sandos’ book is a groundbreaking attempt to recover a historical memory long repressed in both the United States and Mexico, a failed plan that for almost 70 years coloured official American attitudes toward Mexico.
James A. Sandos is Professor of History at the University of Redlands and the author of Rebellion in the Borderlands: Anarchism and the Plan of San Diego, 1904-1923, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.