The accidental president of Brazil : a memoir /

Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be resp...

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Main Author: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
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Language:English
Published: New York : London : PublicAffairs ; Perseus Running [distributor], 2007
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