Getúlio Vargas: References & Edit History

Biographies include Robert M. Levine, Father of the Poor?: Vargas and His Era (1998); John W.F. Dulles, Vargas of Brazil: A Political Biography (1967); and Richard Bourne, Getulio Vargas of Brazil, 1883–1954: Sphinx of the Pampas (1974). Interpretative essays on Vargas’s 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 Thomas E. Skidmore, Politics in Brazil, 1930–1964: An Experiment in Democracy (1967); and John D. Wirth, The Politics of Brazilian Development, 1930–1954 (1970). Vargas’s early political career is reviewed in Joseph L. Love, Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, 1882–1930 (1971); and his role in the 1930 revolution is presented in Jordan M. Young, The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 and the Aftermath (1967).