Brazillionaires
Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country
For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country’s spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil’s wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista—a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.
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When Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil’s emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom, he was poised to cover two of the biggest business stories of our time: how the giants of the developing world were triumphantly taking their place at the center of global capitalism, and how wealth inequality was changing societies everywhere.…
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July 12, 2016Alex Cuadros has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Awl, Slate, The Nation, and Mother Jones. After six years living in São Paulo, he recently moved back to New York City.
