Brazillionaires (eBook)

The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

Cuadros Alex Cuadros (Autor)

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2016
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-125-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-richIn 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.

Autor

Alex Cuadros is a freelance journalist and writer based in New York. He spent six years living in São Paulo and has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and Bloomberg, where he was a dedicated 'billionaires reporter'. This is his first book.

Rezensionen

There is no way to understand Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, without understanding how a handful of billionaires shape the country's politics, media and economy. With his profound insights and deep reporting, Alex Cuadros is an indispensable voice in telling this story of excess, corruption and a society torn between hope and turmoil.

A wild, richly reported tale about Brazil's recent economic rise and fall, and some of the biggest, most colorful characters in business in Brazil who now have a global reach

Brazil's shocking rise and even more shocking fall is one of the biggest stories of our young century. Alex Cuadros tells it through the stories of its billionaires - whose genius, hubris and (in some cases) utter folly come through in vivid, human detail throughout this book.

An incisive and entertaining romp through the follies of Brazilian wealth, power and hubris.

In this excellent book (Cuadros) has managed to use billionaires to illuminate the lives of both rich and poor Brazilians, and all those in between.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: billionaires • Brazil • brazilian • bribery • Corruption • Crisis • DIlma • Dilma Rousseff • Economic crisis • economy • Eike Batista • embezzlement • Globo • Graft • Jorge Paulo Lemann • Kickbacks • Lava jato • Maluf • Olympics • Reportage • Rio • Sao Paolo • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-125-8 / 1782831258
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-125-9 / 9781782831259