Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of all Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll

A study in correcting leftist revisionist history, this book reluctantly pokes holes in the Nobel Peace Prize winner's story of her life and struggle. While essentially confirming the broad outlines of the struggle of indigenous peoples, it shows that her story was really a series of convenient fabrications and a patchwork of others' stories made prototypical. In leftist fashion, this seems to be excused and justifiable but not by this author, who while generally sympathetic to her aims is not willing to follow her historical reconstruction. No surprise to this conservative reader.