{"product_id":"brazil-apart-isbn-9781788737944","title":"Brazil Apart","description":"\u003cb\u003eLeading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America’s largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, Brazil became, under the Workers’ Party from 2003 to 2016, “the theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major state.” Bucking the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism, former steelworker Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva swept aside the broken promises of previous years to invest in social transfers, defying vituperations in the Brazilian media to become the most popular ruler of the age. But in a second spectacular reversal, a parliamentary coup d’état against Lula’s successor—backed by forces in the judiciary and a youthful New Right—has been consolidated by Bolsonaro’s 2018 capture of the Planalto. With the PT’s lodestar now behind bars, a weighing up of his legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed. Brazil Apart is the sharp-edged, comprehensive analytic account required.“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeet Heer, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Masterfully recounts the rise and fall of the Brazilian Left.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nick Burns, \u003ci\u003eThe American Interest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A devastating critique of the rule of the PT.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Marcelo Hoffman, \u003ci\u003eBerfrois\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matthew M. Taylor, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Research Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eSpectrum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLineages of the Absolutist State\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassages from Antiquity to Feudalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConsiderations on Western Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Questions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Old World\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304020889829,"sku":"NP9781788737944","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788737944.jpg?v=1767723031","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/brazil-apart-isbn-9781788737944","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}