Histórias do Poder: 100 anos de política no Brasil, Vol. 1: Militares, Igreja e Sociedade Civil

by Alberto Dines (Editor), Florestan Fernandes Jr. (Editor), Nelma Salomão (Editor)

Em Militares, Igreja e Sociedade Civil, o primeiro volume de Histórias do Poder, 16 depoimentos passam em revista os movimentos sociais que marcaram o século XX no Brasil - os estertores da República do "café-com-leite"; o tenentismo e seus desdobramentos revolucionários em 30; a coluna Prestes, o Estado Novo e as complexas relações entre Vargas e o Partido Comunista; o conturbado governo de João Goulart; os bastidores de 64; as opções da esquerda e a luta armada; a militância, a tortura e as pressões da sociedade civil pela volta à democracia.

Entrevistados:

General Bayma Denys
Padre Oscar Beozzo
Marco Antônio Coelho
Luiz Alberto Bahia
Jacob Gorender
Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns
General Octavio Costa
José Serra
Ferreira Gullar
Evandro Carlos de Andrade
José Augusto Ribeiro
Sérgio Cabral
José Dirceu
Jarbas Passarinho
General Leônidas Pires Gonçalves
Octavio Frias de Oliveira

401 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2001

About the author

Dines was an award-winning Brazilian author and journalist who had a career that spanned an impressive five decades. He has taught journalism since 1963 and has directed or established several magazines or newspapers in Brazil and Portugal.

In addition to working as a journalist, Dines has written over 15 books, including Death in Paradise, the Tragedy of Stefan Zweig (1981) and Fire Links – Antônio José da Silva, the Jew and other stories of the Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil (1992). His book about Stefan Zweig was adapted into the film Lost Zweig (2002)