Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil

by John D. French

Book Overview

Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship--and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469655764
• ISBN13: 9781469655765
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"