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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The family of Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been intimately involved with the political life of Brazil since his grandfather was one of a group of army officers who deposed the Emperor Dom Pedro II and ushered in the modern republic. But the history of Brazil until recently is of a country in which it is perhaps easier to overturn a government than to make one effective. The Communists tried to overthrow it: the army succeeded. One president was...