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Ídolos Con Pies de Barro: Los Falsos Héroes de la Izquierda Y La Cultura Woke
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781400351480
Publisher: Harperenfoque
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 432
Language: Spanish
Descubre la verdad detrás de los «ídolos que marcaron el pensamiento popular contemporáneo.
El mundo occidental los ha exaltado como héroes. Se nos impuso que debíamos admirarlos, celebrarlos e imitarlos. Pero detrás de su fama y el brillo propagandístico, se esconden contradicciones profundas, miserias personales y, en muchos casos, hechos moralmente inaceptables.
En Ídolos con pies de barro, Nicolás Márquez invita al lector a reexaminar figuras tan diversas como Frida Kahlo, Che Guevara, Diego Maradona, Eva Perón o el papa Francisco. A través de biografías críticas y documentadas, expone cómo estos personajes han sido convertidos en símbolos funcionales de una agenda ideológica que agrede la cultura, la política y la conciencia colectiva.
Este no es un libro para tibios ni para quienes buscan sentirse cómodos. Es una obra provocadora, rigurosa y sin concesiones, que sacude el relato dominante y desafía al lector a pensar por sí mismo.
Prepárate para leer lo que nadie en los grandes medios se atreve a decir. Porque la batalla no es solo política: es cultural, espiritual y urgente.
Idols with Feet of Clay
Discover the truth behind the idols who shaped contemporary popular thought.
The Western world has exalted them as heroes. We have been told that we should admire them, celebrate them, and imitate them. But behind their fame and propagandistic shine lie deep contradictions, personal miseries, and, in many cases, morally unacceptable actions.
In Idols with Feet of Clay, Nicolás Márquez invites readers to reexamine figures as diverse as Frida Kahlo, Che Guevara, Diego Maradona, Eva Perón, and Pope Francis. Through critical, well-documented biographies, he shows how these individuals have been turned into useful symbols of an ideological agenda that assaults culture, politics, and collective consciousness.
This is not a book for the timid or for those seeking comfort. It is a provocative, rigorous, and uncompromising work that shakes the dominant narrative and challenges readers to think for themselves.
Prepare yourself to read what no one in the major media dares to say. Because the battle is not only political: it is cultural, spiritual, and urgent.
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