Father of the Poor?
Vargas and his Era
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Part of New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Robert M. Levine, University of Miami
- Date Published: March 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585286
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This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual rights, working for state-regulated citizenship without disharmony, without the right to dissent. His revolution was partial; one in which new constituencies and rules were grafted onto traditional political practices. Vargas devoted as much effort to manipulating workers as he did to benefiting them. By the end of his long tenure in power, some things had hardly changed at all: the readiness of the armed forces to intervene; the elite's tenacious hold on privilege; and the historical predominance of the Center-South. Brazil's distribution of income remained among the least equable in the world, but Vargas did not perceive this as a problem that needed to be solved. That Vargas promised much and delivered little did not diminish the adulation that Brazilians held for him. Ordinary people would shrug and say 'O presidente sempre lembrou da gente' ('The President always thought about us').
Read more- The first book in any language to use Vargas' diaries, which were published in December 1995
- Uses oral histories to understand how ordinary Brazilians fared under Vargas - includes documents and photos never before published
- Fresh, comprehensive overview of the most important period of twentieth-century Brazilian history
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- Date Published: March 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585286
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 156 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.314kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Vargas as Enigma
2. In the Saddle, 1883–1937
3. The Estado Novo, 1937–1945
4. Populism Vargas-style, 1945–1954
5. Different Getúlios
6. Vargas' Incomplete Revolution
Appendices.
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