{"product_id":"brazil-joel-wolfe-9781509547753","title":"Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status of a failed state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this vibrant and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this \"incomplete nation\" and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial discrimination, and regional rivalries. From independence to the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to the election of President Bolsonaro - the \"Tropical Trump\" - and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509547754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509547753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Joel Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44254726488319,"sku":"9781509547753","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_afdfbab0-95dc-44c6-9607-a83c02723641.jpg?v=1694614021","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brazil-joel-wolfe-9781509547753","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}