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Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil" : Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945) /

Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getúlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dulles, John W. F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Advocate of Order during the Old Republic (pre-1930)
  • Part II. Critic of Post-1930 Confusion (1931-1935)
  • Part III. Opponent of the Post-1935 Repression (1936-1938)
  • Part IV. In the Aftermath of the 1938 Uprisings (1938-1941)
  • Part V. Dealing with the Economia Popular and Matarazzo (1940-1944)
  • Part VI. Giving Attention to International Matters (1942-1943)
  • Part VII. Battling Cassiano Ricardo and the DIP(1943-1944)
  • Part VIII. Reacting to Catholic Conformity and Coriolano's Repression (1944-1945)
  • Part IX. Emerging as a Hero with Brazil's Return to Liberties (Early 1945)
  • Part X. Participant in Preparations for Elections (June-October 1945)
  • Part XI. Declining to Run for Congress and Explaining Vargas' Fall (October 1945)
  • Part XII. Shocked by the Electorate's Message (December 1945)
  • Notes
  • Index