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The accidental president of Brazil:

a memoir
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PublicAffairs, 2006 - 291 pages
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 responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha.

This was just one of the turns in a largely unscripted and sometimes unwanted political career. In exile during the harshest period of the junta that ruled Brazil for twenty years, Cardoso started his political life with a tentative run for the Federal Senate in 1978. Within fifteen years, and despite himself, this former sociologist was running the country.

And what a country! Brazil, it is often said, is on the edge of modernity, striding with one foot in mid-air towards the future, the other still rooted deep in a traditional past. It is a land of sophisticated music and brutal gold-digging, of the next global superpower and the last old-time coffee plantations. It is gloriously ungovernable, irrepressibly attractive, and home to the family, friends and extraordinary life of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This is his story and his love song to his country.
  

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Review: The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

Avis d'utilisateur  - Angela Sun - Goodreads

The book comes off more as a response to all his critics rather than a memoir of his true thoughts and actions. Consulter l'avis complet

Review: The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

Avis d'utilisateur  - Rosemary - Goodreads

This autobiography of past president Fernando Henrique Cardoso tells about Brazil's struggle for a democratic government. The beginning accounts of past leaders of Brazil are cumbersome, but the ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Table des matières

Chapter 1 The Family Business
1
Chapter 2 The Emperor and the General
9
Chapter 3 All Bubbles Must Burst
31
Chapter 4 A Recipe for a Coup
57
Chapter 5 The Bitter Caviar of Exile
77
Chapter 6 Jeithinho
103
Chapter 7 Change Now
125
Chapter 8 Kings of the Jungle
155
Chapter 10 Remember Everything I Wrote
203
Chapter 11 The Samba Effect
229
Chapter 12 The Land of the Future
251
Epilogue
277
AcknowledgmentsPhoto Credits
282
Index
285
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
293
Droits d'auteur

Chapter 9 A Real President
179

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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Fernando Henrique Cardoso was President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two consecutive terms, from January 1995 to December 2002. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931, he is married, with three children, and lives in São Paulo.

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