The Brazil Chronicles

by Stephen G. Bloom

Book Overview

As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in The Brazil Chronicles. The expat newspaper was a breeding ground for a different kind of storyteller -- audacious risk-takers who told madcap tales...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082622315X
• ISBN13: 9780826223159
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"