It was another strong year for works on authoritarianism, democracy and inequalities.
Two reissues deserve mention: in , Sueli Carneiro presents the general public with an introduction to the trajectory of a great Brazilian intellectual and activist. In turn, the Portuguese historian Rui Tavares sought, in , to reconstruct the cardinal points of the public debate with notable historical sensitivity.
Among the releases, , by Marcelo Godoy, stands out for narrating in great detail the operation to assassinate the leadership of the Brazilian Communist Party by a Brazilian woman. The killing was possible thanks to infiltration at the highest levels of the party, revealed here for the first time. The PCB did not join the armed struggle.
by Matthias Lehmann, is the first work of fiction, and the first story in , to enter my year-end lists. Originally published in France, the work talks about while telling the stories of two mining families.
In , Kate Conger and Ryan Mac show how part of the global public sphere passed into the hands of a billionaire.
“Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power”, by Timothy W. Ryback, is the story of the negotiations within the traditional German right that allowed him to come to power within democratic institutions that he would soon destroy. So it is.
In “Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World”, David Van Reybrouck brilliantly reconstructs the history of the struggle for independence of , a country that was at the center of several central struggles of modernity.
“Assombros da Casa-Grande”, by Marcos Queiroz, shows how the theme of and the fear of slave rebellion impacted the drafting of the first Brazilian Constitution, in 1824, as well as much of subsequent Brazilian political thought.
In , Fernando Limongi and Leonardo Weller produced a history of the New Republic strongly informed by the best in Brazilian political science.
by Claudio Angelo and Tasso Azevedo, tells the story of , one of the greatest political struggles in the world in recent decades. It is the story of a great Brazilian victory.
Bruno Carazza has started publishing what was expected, which will discuss the mechanisms through which the Brazilian State produces and reproduces inequalities and inefficiency. The first volume deals with the abuses of the Brazilian public service elite.
To write, Pedro Fernando Nery traveled to places that occupy extremes in Brazilian inequality statistics. While presenting their stories, they discuss data and public policy proposals that would help solve the problem. Combining an urgent theme with an ingenious expository strategy, it is the book of the year.
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