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Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945

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Daryle Williams' Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, he investigates the often neglected or undiscovered elements to the rise Vargas Regime as the government was able to perpetuate its presence and authority with the "powerful weapon in managing Brazilian-ness." The author presents state-based looked inside the decision-making processes that establish the often paradoxical, cultural direction in which the state takes, emphasizing the years from 1930 to 1945. Williams argues that although Vargas is largely given the credit of "rescuing Brazilian culture," it was the institutions that he raised, especially the Ministry of Education, and the managers of culture therein, that truly influenced the dynamic of Brazilian culture.