Los desesperados : Una historia de Billy el Niño

The modern world was marked by the violent birth and meteoric rise of one nation in particular: the United States. Young people from the Old World flooded America and embarked on the largest land grab in recorded history. *The Desperate* tells the story of Billy the Kid, one of the most notable figures in this enormous stampede of fortune seekers, winners, and losers. Born in New York in 1859 to a poor family that had emigrated from Ireland, Billy died at just twenty-one years old. This book narrates not only his personal story—perhaps the story of us all, partially erased by the passage of time—but also the story in which we are all immersed: the story of the origins of American power and the hijacking of democracy.