Adversity Is My Angel by Raul H Castro

Adversity Is My Angel by Raul H Castro

Raul H. Castro was the first Hispanic governor of Arizona, ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia, and Argentina, lawyer, judge, and teacher. Born in Mexico in 1916, he moved with his family to a small mining community in Arizona in 1926. His earliest memories include collecting cactus fruit in the desert for food. His childhood served as a metaphor for Mexican and American attitudes of mutual suspicion and distrust. Castro, nevertheless, defied the odds and, thanks to an athletic scholarship, entered Arizona State Teachers College where he graduated in 1939. By then an American citizen, he worked for the U.S. State Department as a foreign service officer at Agua Prieta, Sonora and then entered the University of Arizona College of Law. He was admitted to the Arizona bar in 1949. After practicing law in Tucson for several years, he became deputy Pima County attorney. In 1954, he was elected county attorney and served until 1958, when he became a Pima County Superior Court Judge. President Lyndon Johnson appointed Castro U.S. ambassador to Salvador in 1964 and to Bolivia in 1969. Castro was elected governor on the Democratic Party ticket in 1974 but an appointment as ambassador to Argentina interrupted his term. Raul Castro's story suggests much about the human spirit, the ability to overcome institutional and personal prejudice, and the hope inherent in the American dream.

Jack L. August Jr. is executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest and Visiting Scholar in Legal History at Snell & Wilmer. He is the former executive director at the Arizona Historical Foundation at Arizona State University, where he teaches graduate courses in water policy and management. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Dr. August has written books and articles on twentieth-century western political and environmental history, including Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (TCU Press, 1999) and Senator Dennis Deconcini: From the Center of the Aisle (University of Arizona Press, 2006).

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Titel	Adversity Is My Angel
Autor	Raul H Castro
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Texas Christian University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-05-28
Seitenanzahl	192
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