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The Origins of the 1964 Revolution | p. 3 |
Castelo Branco: Cleaning House--April 1964-March 1965 | p. 18 |
The Military Take Control | p. 18 |
The New Government: A UDN-Military Alliance | p. 21 |
The Purges and the Torture | p. 23 |
Supporters and Critics | p. 27 |
Economic Stabilization: A Quasi-Orthodox Approach | p. 29 |
Wage Policy | p. 33 |
Convincing the Foreign Lenders and Investors | p. 35 |
The UDN: A Viable Political Base? | p. 39 |
Defeat at the Polls and the Hard-Line Reaction | p. 42 |
Castelo Branco: The Attempt to Institutionalize | p. 46 |
The Second Institutional Act and Its Political Aftermath | p. 46 |
Sources of Opposition | p. 49 |
Dealing with the Succession | p. 51 |
The UDN and Lacerda Again | p. 53 |
The Economic Scene in 1966 | p. 55 |
National Security and a New Legal Structure | p. 56 |
The Economic Record of the Castelo Branco Years | p. 58 |
Strengthening the Market Economy | p. 60 |
Castelo Branco's Political Legacy | p. 63 |
Costa e Silva: The Military Tighten Their Grip | p. 66 |
A New Cast | p. 66 |
The New Economic Strategy | p. 68 |
Politics: Back to "Normal"? | p. 71 |
From the Broad Front to a Challenge by Students and Workers | p. 73 |
Arousing the Hardliners | p. 79 |
The Authoritarian Crackdown | p. 81 |
The Guerrilla Emerges | p. 84 |
The Economy: Pragmatism Pays Off | p. 89 |
A Paralyzed President and a Succession Crisis | p. 93 |
The U.S.: A Missing Ambassador and Some Second Thoughts | p. 101 |
Medici: The Authoritarian Face | p. 105 |
The Personality, Cabinet, and Governing Style of Medici | p. 105 |
PR in a New Vein | p. 110 |
Medici and Electoral Politics, 1969-72 | p. 112 |
The Liquidation of the Guerrilla Threat | p. 117 |
The Uses of Repression | p. 125 |
The Church: An Opposition Force | p. 135 |
The Economic Boom and Its Critics | p. 138 |
Opening the Amazon: Solution for the Northeast? | p. 144 |
Continued Electoral Manipulation and the Choice of Geisel | p. 149 |
Human Rights and Brazil-U.S. Relations | p. 154 |
Taking Stock: What Kind of Regime? | p. 156 |
Geisel: Toward Abertura | p. 160 |
The Return of the Castelistas | p. 160 |
Liberalization from Within? | p. 164 |
November 1974: An MDB Victory | p. 171 |
"Decompression" Under Fire | p. 173 |
New Economic Problems | p. 178 |
Voices from Civil Society | p. 180 |
Planalto Problem: How to Win Elections | p. 188 |
Government Response: The "April Package" | p. 190 |
A U.S.-Brazil Rift: Nuclear Technology and Human Rights | p. 192 |
Geisel Subdues the Hard Line | p. 197 |
The "New Unionism" in Action | p. 204 |
The Economic Record Since 1974 and Geisel's Legacy | p. 206 |
Figueiredo: The Twilight of Military Government | p. 210 |
Complexion of the New Government | p. 211 |
The 1979 Strikes | p. 212 |
Delfim Neto Again | p. 215 |
The Amnesty Issue | p. 217 |
Reformulating the Parties | p. 219 |
Another Challenge from Labor | p. 222 |
Explosion on the Right | p. 227 |
The Balance of Payments: A New Vulnerability | p. 230 |
The 1982 Elections | p. 233 |
The Economy in Deep Recession | p. 236 |
The Campaign for Direct Presidential Elections | p. 240 |
PDS Presidential Aspirants | p. 244 |
The Victory of the Democratic Alliance | p. 250 |
Economic Turnaround | p. 254 |
The New Republic: Prospects for Democracy | p. 256 |
How Much Did Democratization Depend on the Person of Tancredo? | p. 257 |
How Did the Military React to Democratization? | p. 267 |
How Did the Democratic Government Deal with the Hard Economic Choices? | p. 273 |
The Foreign Debt: Temporary Breathing Room | p. 274 |
Plano Cruzado: A New Response to Inflation | p. 276 |
Conclusion | p. 283 |
Did Democratization Include Efforts to Create a More Equal Society? | p. 283 |
Trends in Social and Economic Indicators Under the Authoritarian Regime | p. 284 |
Record of the New Regime | p. 288 |
Urban Labor | p. 289 |
Agrarian Reform | p. 298 |
Treatment of Prisoners | p. 302 |
Postscript: Economic Realities and Political Fallout | p. 303 |
Notes | p. 311 |
Index | p. 411 |
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