Getúlio (pocket edition)

“Intense research into the events, characters and circumstances of the Vargas Era, packaged in the form of a novel.” Veja Magazine “Juremir Machado’s book goes beyond history itself and constructs a detailed portrait of the solitude and intimacy of Getúlio’s power.” Portal Imprensa Journalist and historian, the gaucho Juremir Machado da Silva portrays a multiple, seductive, complex, contradictory, paradoxical Getúlio: a character from a novel. Juremir's text is moving and hilarious, revealing the rhetoric of a passionate era in Brazilian politics and the press by retracing the memories of a gallery of characters still alive, more than fifty years after the shot that ripped through Brazil's bowels: the hired gun, the Beloved, the personal secretary, the eyewitness to history, the German "spy," the son of the victim on Tonelero Street, the president's grandchildren, Lacerda's daughter, the aide-de-camp, Colonel Bejo Vargas's wives, the political heirs, and the caudillo's orphans. Only fiction can embrace the full complexity and truth of the Vargas enigma.