LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ARGENTINA AS ANTI-CAUDILLO ORGAN

So we know this much: Sarmiento was an anti-caudillista agitator. That is, he propagated the idea that this form of government, however loosely interpreted, was setting Argentina back. We know that he wrote his book, "Facundo," while he was an idealistic scholar and teacher. We know that Sarmiento also opened 14 branches of the Biblioteca Publica de Buenos Aires. However, Sarmiento's lasting influence is the Teacher's National Library and not the Biblioteca Nacional. Under his tenure, the country became "official" and Sarmiento standardized the teachers and laid the foundation for the educational system. Sarmiento felt that education was better at democratizing people than arms or weapons. But what does this have to do with the Biblioteca Nacional. I guess I want to know what the intersection of Sarmiento's book, "Facundo Quiroga, or Civilization and Barbary" his support of libraries and the formation of the Biblioteca Nacional. We know that by 1884, the Biblioteca Publica had transferred to the hands of the government. But this was a full ten years after Sarmiento was forced from office in 1874. If the heart is the formation of the Biblio Nacional then might one of the aortas be Sarmiento's "Facundo" book; In other words, the book came first, then the support of the libraries, and this in turn must have propeled the idea of a National Library.