Brazil Apart
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Brazil Apart by Perry Anderson
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right
One of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures -- Jeet Heer * New Republic *
Extraordinary originality and penetrating insightSweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative, pungently written: all of the above apply * Andrew Bacevich, author of Twilight of the American Century [For American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers] *
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times [for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers] *
A magnificent achievement. It is a product of his ability, near-unique in today's world of ideas, to distil a country's history and politics into a few thousand words that are at once combative and informative -- Mihir S Sharma * Business Standard, New Delhi [For The Indian Ideology] *
Exposes some substantial faultlines in recent Indian writing about India and with some justice question the emerging consensus around India's democratic successes -- David Arnold * Times Literary Supplement [For The Indian Ideology] *
masterfully recounts the rise and fall of the Brazilian Left. -- Nick Burns * The American Interest *
A devastating critique of the rule of the PT. -- Marcelo Hoffman * Berfrois *
An approachable yet erudite reconsideration of Brazilian politics between 1994 and Bolsonaro's first year in office...The prose is light, delightfully romping through the twists and turns of Brazilian political life and skewering everyone along the way -- Matthew M. Taylor * Latin American Research Review *
Extraordinary originality and penetrating insightSweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative, pungently written: all of the above apply * Andrew Bacevich, author of Twilight of the American Century [For American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers] *
His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times [for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers] *
A magnificent achievement. It is a product of his ability, near-unique in today's world of ideas, to distil a country's history and politics into a few thousand words that are at once combative and informative -- Mihir S Sharma * Business Standard, New Delhi [For The Indian Ideology] *
Exposes some substantial faultlines in recent Indian writing about India and with some justice question the emerging consensus around India's democratic successes -- David Arnold * Times Literary Supplement [For The Indian Ideology] *
masterfully recounts the rise and fall of the Brazilian Left. -- Nick Burns * The American Interest *
A devastating critique of the rule of the PT. -- Marcelo Hoffman * Berfrois *
An approachable yet erudite reconsideration of Brazilian politics between 1994 and Bolsonaro's first year in office...The prose is light, delightfully romping through the twists and turns of Brazilian political life and skewering everyone along the way -- Matthew M. Taylor * Latin American Research Review *
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, The H-Word, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, The Indian Ideology, The New Old World, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions and The Origins of Postmodernity. He is an editor at New Left Review.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788737944 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788737946 |
| Title | Brazil Apart |
| Author | Perry Anderson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2019-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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