Jeremy Martin reviews “Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President,” by Vicente Fox and Rob Allyn

Vicente Fox is a tall man. On that just about everyone agrees. And these days Fox, the former president of Mexico turned autobiographer, has to be happy with any point of consensus.

Alas, it was not always that way. Think back to the excited spring and summer of 2000 when a figure straight out of Hollywood’s central casting literally rode into the public’s imagination in Mexico. After over 70 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and an eternity’s worth of undemocratic elections, Fox historically wrested Los Pinos, Mexico’s presidential palace, from the PRI.”*

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