<DIV>The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's <I>Memory of Fire</I> trilogy, <I>Faces and Masks</I> is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as resonant and compelling as Simon Bolívar, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Billy the Kid. With its brilliant and imaginative blend of journalism, scholarship, and political passion, <I>Faces and Masks</I> is a panoramic interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.</DIV>