Title: Innuendo, antics, and a must-read.
Review: Professor Vasconcelos does not care for academics standards as well as for foreign literature on things Brazilian; he has written a powerful indictment of Cardoso's policies for Brazil from a extreme nationalist left-wing position, and is not shy about filling his work with all kinds of innuendo, private jokes, antics...and forceful intellectual insights. It's a confused and confusing book, poorly ordered, with out-of-date intellectual references; in short, it's a work of genius that is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Brazilian contemporary politics and who wants a better fare than the eulogy connocted by conservative American academics that think Cardoso to be "good enough for them". The book demands knowledge of Portuguese and Brazilian politics beyond introductory label, but for anyone already acquainted with the subjects, who wants to go deeper in the knowledge of the ideological roots of Cardoso's policy, it's indispensable.
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