Bolivar USA Book Published

Alvaro Muñoz is honored to present this book, which is the product of lengthy research and reports in a very personal way the varied and often little known tributes and honors in the United States of America dedicated to Simon Bolivar.  These honors include an opera characterizing important details of his glorious feat of liberation; communities named after him in fourteen different states; and a tradition begun by the Buckner family in 1823 and continuing to this day of baptizing children with the name Simon Bolivar.
There are other tributes mentioned in this book, such as that created by the United States Postal Service of an edition of stamps called “Champions of Liberty” including a series introduced on July 24, 1958, dedicated to the Liberator Simon Bolivar.  Also included in the book is the tribute offered by the United States Navy of christening a nuclear submarine with his name, the SSBN-641 USS Simon Bolivar, and the honor of naming after him Mount Bolivar in Oregon.
Of special interest is the narration in a chapter of the book of the visit by the Presidents of the United States and Venezuela at that time, Harry S. Truman and Romulo Gallegos, to the town of Bolivar, Missouri on July 4 and 5, 1948, to inaugurate the statue donated by the government and people of Venezuela, as it reads on the pedestal. The visit of two presidents carrying out cultural and social activities in a very cozy and prosperous community is a pleasant memory for Alvaro Muñoz who compiled videos, photographs and interviews with people who participated in that special celebration in 1948.
This book is published both in Spanish and English so both cultures know the details of these interesting tributes offered to Simon Bolivar, the Liberator.