Morais, Fernando,   1946- <br/><br/>
Lula :  a biography / 
Fernando Morais ; translated by Brian Mier. 
 - English-language edition. 
 - ix, 308 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index.  "First published as Lula: Biografia, Volume 1." 
<br/><br/>List of Political Party and Public Agency AbbreviationsMap of ABC, São Paulo1. Sergio Moro orders Lula's arrest but he decides not to turn himself in to the Federal Police. "They'll have to come for me"2. While searching Lula's home, the Federal Police stick a bug under his couch to secretly record conversations with his wife 3. GloboNews network runs a fake story-"Lula Will Resist Arrest!"-and its ratings rise by 694 percent 4. Emidio learns that the Federal Police had not one but several spies filming everything that happened inside the union hall 5. Aft er standing up to the neighbors and the Federal Police, the people spend 581 days yelling greetings to Lula. He can't see them from his cell, but he can hear them 6. A hacker named Red opens to the gates of hell and the Supreme Court buries Moro and the Car Wash investigation. Lula steps out of prison as a presidential candidate 7. Jardim Lavinia, April 1980-With the police at the door to arrest him, Lula growls, "I'm sleeping, damn it! They can go fuck themselves!" 8. Navy intelligence intercepts communications from the Curia and reveals that Cardinal Arns asked the German Catholic Church to support the ABC Metalworkers' strike fund 9. After a cruel childhood in abject poverty, Lula receives the key to paradise: a diploma from SENAI technical school 10. Lula's fiancée gives an ultimatum: "You have to choose between the union and marriage. You can't have both" 11. "I know, doctor, my baby was born dead." "Be strong, Mr. Lula, because the news is worse: Your wife Lourdes died too" 12. During his first visit to a foreign country, Lula rushes home from Tokyo: his brother is being tortured in a DOI-CODI prison 13. After years denigrating the political class, Lula starts building the foundation for the Workers' Party 14. While Lula faces the police and the bosses in ABC, Brizola tries to resuscitate the PTB party and is blocked by Golbery 15. Lula brings together workers, politicians, intellectuals, and leftist activists to create the Workers' Party and is arrested two months later 16. In the middle of the night, a polite man in a tie interrogates Lula in a cubicle in DOPS, sent by a general codenamed "the chief" 17. Clobbered in the polls, Lula sinks into depression and decides to abandon politics. He travels to Cuba, listens to Fidel, and returns to Brazil to become the best-elected congressman in historyEpilogueAppendix: An X-ray of the Large Communications Companies' War against Lula and His PartyIndex 
<br/><br/> "First major biography of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva"-- 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Portuguese 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781804294925 1804294926 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2024012325 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lula, 1945- <br/>Lula,  1945-  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)--History.<br/>Partido de los Trabajadores (Brasil) --Historia 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Presidents--Brazil--Biography.<br/>Presidentes --Brasil--Biografías <br/>Political corruption--Brazil.<br/>Corrupción política--Brasil <br/>Money laundering--Brazil.<br/>Lavado de dinero--Brasil
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Brazil--Politics and government--2003-<br/>Brasil --Política y gobierno--2003-<br/>Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.<br/>Brasil --Política y gobierno--1985-2002
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>103 F 2538.5  / L955M 2024 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>981.06/5092