Lula and his politics of cunning : from metalworker to president of Brazil /
"Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate migrant parents in northeastern Brazil. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship-an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate migrant parents in northeastern Brazil. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship-and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his eight-year administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions out of poverty. Here, John D. French, one of the foremost historians of Brazil, provides the first critical biography of the leader whom even his political enemies see as strikingly charismatic, humorous, and endearing"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (508 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469655780 9781469655789 9781469655772 1469655772 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
