This book was quite entertaining and really brought together the racial animus of Anglo settlers on the Mexican border, the history of the Mexican political development, US impositions, struggles against primitive accumulation of Indigenous lands and bodies, rebellion against the Diaz regime and particularly the Flores Magón brothers' organizing with the PLM to tell a good story. Dr. Lytle Hernandez does not appear to have a sympathetic view of anarchists from the description of Ricardo (I don't say that because of criticisms of his relationships or petty, written attacks by him, anarchists shouldn't have idols, but because his anarchist views didn't appear weighed in the book). Also, the book felt a little like it was quickly tied together like the publishing schedule forced her pen a bit. But the insights into US manipulation of the political landscape in Mexico, the legal wrangling in the USA against RFM & the Junta, and the scandalous undermining of the integrity of the postal system to weaken the PLM's organizing was laid out quite well by the author. I paired this with a reread of the biography at the start of Mitchell C Verter's "Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader", as Magón died in a US prison 100 years ago this month.