James Lockhart

"It is a magnificent epic, " said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece, " judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck.
"More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration.