Brazillionaires - The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

Alex Cuadros

Profile Books

2016

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-10: B017T7DXKU

In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible natural resources. By the middle of 2013 he had lost it all, engulfed in scandal.

Brazillionaires is a fast-paced account of Batista's rise and fall: a story of helicopter flights, beach-front penthouses and high-speed car crashes. Along the way, it tells the parallel story of Brazil itself, a country caught in the cycle of boom and bust, renewed hope and dashed promise; a country where the hyper-rich are at the heart of the economy - and where their wealth can buy immense political power.

Stefan Zweig said in 1941 that Brazil was the country of the future; Brazilians joke that it always will be. Today, rampant corruption and endemic inequality threaten to derail the new Brazilian Dream. The brazillionaires are the key to understanding that dream; through them Brazillionaires tells the story of their country's past, present and future.

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O que eu aprendi com essa leitura?

4. Aprendi que nós brasileiros acreditamos no mito do homem branco trabalhador. Na mitologia brasileira, todo homem branco é trabalhador. O autor sugere que nós admiramos Eike, por sua mãe ser alemã, e Lemann, por ser suíço. Eles se encaixam na nossa crença.

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