VARGAS, GETULIO

Additional reading Biographies include John W.F. Dulles, Vargas of Brazil: A Political Biography (1967); and Richard Bourne, Getulio Vargas of Brazil, 18831954: Sphinx of the Pampas (1974). Other accounts in a broader context include John Gunther, Inside Latin America, chapter 23 (1941, reprinted 1975); Ernest Hambloch, His Majesty, the President: A Study of Constitutional Brazil (1935); and Karl Loewenstein, Brazil Under Vargas (1942, reprinted 1973). Interpretative essays on Vargas' impact on Brazil may be found in Robert J. Alexander, Prophets of the Revolution: Profiles of Latin American Leaders, chapter 10 (1962); and Tad Szulc, Twilight of the Tyrants, chapter 3 (1959). These themes are examined at greater length in Octvio Ianni, Crisis in Brazil (1970; originally published in Portuguese, 1968); Robert M. Levine, The Vargas Regime: The Critical Years, 19341938 (1970); Thomas E. Skidmore, Politics in Brazil, 19301964: An Experiment in Democracy (1967); and John D. Wirth, The Politics of Brazilian Development, 19301954 (1970). Vargas' early political career is reviewed in Joseph L. Love, Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, 18821930 (1971); and his role in the 1930 revolution is presented in Jordan M. Young, The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 and the Aftermath (1967).