Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt Letelier is a Chilean writer and historian who gained notoriety by his study of the Chilean elite aristocracy and plutocracy and his criticism of traditional state-centered

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term ":wikt:historiography, historiography" is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiog ...

. Jocelyn-Holt has also written several controversial columns, among them one in '' The Clinic'' in 2005 where he harshly criticized then presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet.Bachelet tuvo duro enfrentamiento con historiador Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
/ref> He has two brothers: Enrique, an economist; and Tomás, lawyer and politician, former member of the Christian Democratic Party of Chile and ex-candidate for the 2013 election of Chile.

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University of Chile alumni Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers 21st-century Chilean historians 21st-century Chilean male writers Writers from Santiago, Chile 1955 births Living people Westland Middle School alumni Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Academic staff of the University of Talca Academic staff of the University of Santiago, Chile Academic staff of Diego Portales University Academic staff of the University of Chile Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Academic staff of the Andrés Bello National University {{chile-writer-stub