Daniel Heenan

This book is part memoir, history, exploration, and critique of the Jehovah's Witness religion. I was born and raised as a Jehovah's Witness. Eventually, I found myself shunned due to actions considered unacceptable by the leaders of the religion at the time. I lost everything except the shirt on my back and the shoes on my feet. I faced a series of personal setbacks as a result of being cut off from childhood friends and family.

In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - has long been the symbol of Cortés' bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened?

Profundizar en su legado es un viaje por uno de los momentos más convulsos del siglo XIX, de la muerte de la Nueva España y del nacimiento del México moderno. Las luchas militares y personales de Agustín te adentrarán a batallas poco conocidas de la guerra de la Independencia, a su relación personal con la famosísima Güera Rodríguez, y al que se conoce como el día más feliz que ha tenido México, así como su primer gobierno.