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  • Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil’s foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the words of eminent historian José Honório Rodrigues, 'No one person influenced the Brazilian historical process as much as Carlos La...
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    66,96 €

  • Resisting Brazil’s Military Regime
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    Praised by his many admirers as a 'courageous and fearless' defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral’s battles with the Vargas government in Sobral Pinto, 'The Conscience of Brazil': Leading the Attack against Vargas (...
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    44,30 €

  • Sobral Pinto, 'The Conscience of Brazil'
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    Praised by his admirers as 'one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch' and as 'an intrepid Don Quixote,' Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getúlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyers’ associations, newspaper polemics, and a voluminous correspondence, Sobral Pinto ...
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    53,63 €

  • Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    From reviews of Volume I: 'Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for.' -Luso-Brazilian Review Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil’s foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960...
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    93,62 €

  • The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership. For the members of the school’s secret Burschenschaft society, the training consisted principally in leading demonstrations for liberal causes, such as the abolition of slavery and the overthrow of the monarchy. During the Old Rep...
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    37,55 €

  • Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country’s regime. Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regi...
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    40,21 €

  • Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation and activities of anarchists and Communists, the two most important radical gro...
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    80,35 €

  • Unrest in Brazil
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    ... I offer my life in a holocaust ... This people whose slave I was will no longer be slave to anyone. My sacrifice will remain forever in their souls and my blood will be the price of their ransom. President Getulio Vargas’ testament-written shortly before his suicide on August 24, 1954-was prophetic, for the Vargas legacy was to cast a shadow on political-military events of ...
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    60,22 €

  • Vargas of Brazil
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    The dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954 was a highly contradictory and controversial personality. Getúlio Vargas, from the pampas of the southern frontier state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the dictator who ruled without ever forgetting the lower classes. Vargas was a consummate artist at politics. He climbed the political ladder through seats in the state and...
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    57,63 €

  • Yesterday in Mexico
    John W. F. Dulles / John WFDulles
    Early in a sixteen-year sojourn in Mexico as an engineer for an American mining company, John W. F. Dulles became fascinated by the story of Mexico’s emergence as a modern nation, and was imbued with the urge to tell that story as it had not yet been told-by letting events speak for themselves, without any interpretations or appraisal. The resultant book offers an interesting p...
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    100,40 €