The military dictatorship and the coups within the coup: 1964-1969

AN ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR UNDERSTANDING THIS CHAPTER OF BRAZILIAN HISTORY Using the format he established in the two volumes of O Brasil sem retoque (2001), bestsellers that are still references today, Chagas once again explores the history told by newspapers and journalists to unravel, with the colors and voices of the time, at a pace that only the pen of a great narrator could convey, not only the thorny and dark period between 1964 and 1969 but also the ten delicate years that preceded the military takeover. • In 2014, the press will give extensive coverage to the 50th anniversary of the Military Coup in Brazil.