1. An Introduction
2. Toward a Usable Narrative
3. Bolívar in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela
4. José Marti and Venezuela: Redressing Bolivarian Doctrine
5. From Liberalism to Positivism: Gil Fortoul and Vallenilla Lanz
6. Rufino Blanco Fombona: An Exile in Spain
7. The Construction of a Patrician Heritage and of Calumny: Vicente Lecuna, La Casa Natal, El Archivo del Libertador, and the Bolivarian Society
8. Revising the Bolivarian Machine: A Venezuela Reclaimed by New Intellectuals
9. Pan Americanism Above Ground: Bolívar in the United States
10. A Rebirth
11. Bolívar in the Wake of World War II: Gerhard Masur and Waldo Frank
12. The Bolívar-Santander Polemic in Colombia: Germán Arciniegas and Gabriel García Márquez
13. Bolívar and Sucre in Ecuador: A Case of Two Assassinations
14. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolívar Remembered
15. Bolívar in Bolivia: On Fathers and Creators
16. Institution Building in Peru: Ricardo Palma and Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
17. Bolívar in the Río de la Plata
18. Epilogue