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Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote, " Brazilian lawyer Heraclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getulio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyers' associations, newspaper polemics, and a voluminous correspondence, Sobral Pinto fought for democracy, morality, and justice, particularly for the ...

The second and final volume of the definitive biography of one of Brazil's greatest reformers.

The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. This title gives an account of the Brazilian Communist Party's struggle to survive those days of repression.

A story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation. It offers an interesting paradox: it is "chronicle" in the medieval sense - a straightforward record of events in chronological order, recounted with no effort at evaluation or interpretation.

The second half of the biography of this Brazilian leader.

The Sao Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country's leadership. This is a narrative history that breathes life into the events of twentieth-century Brazilian politics.

A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.

Unrest in Brazil describes in exciting detail the government crises and resulting military interventions that punctuated the power struggle between supporters and opponents of Vargas in the decade following his death.

This study focuses on the formation and activities of anarchists and Communists, the two most important radical groups working within Brazilian labor.

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The first of a two-volume biography of a Brazilian journalist and politician.