Chatô - The King Of Brazil
(Fernando Morais)
The book is a biography about a famous brazilian journalist who has
changed, literally, the history of Brazil. Francisco de
Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo was born in Umbuzeiro, Paraíba in
1892. Beyond "ugly, scrubby and yellow", he was stammerer and has just
learned to read when he was nine years old. Even so, he
has graduated as Bachelor of Laws and learned French and German. At
this time, he got a job in a local journal. But nobody could imagine
how long that guy would go. At the end of his life, he had an empire
formed by tens of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV agencies, farms
and companies. Word was his weapon. By means of his journals he used to
attack his enemies and to reverence his friends. And, this way, he got
a lot of things. He helped his friend Getúlio Vargas to becomepresident
of Brazil after 30's Revolution. He has founded the first
Latin American TV Agency (TV Tupi). He has founded MASP (Art Museum of
São Paulo) . He has married three times and got three children
(Fernando, Gilberto e
Teresa). But his weddings failed to hold. Very womanizer, he used to be
surrounded by a lot of women. His was friend of important people, like
industrials, bankers and influent politicians. Outside Brazil, he was
known as the brazilian "Citizen Kane", allusion to the famous movie
with the same name by Orson Welles. In politics, Chateaubriand came to
be senator and, after, ambassador of Brazil in England, where he has
given a beautiful necklace of diamonds to the Queen Elizabeth and has
consecrated William Churchil as Sir of the Jagunço's Order, a
ficticious title that he used to honor his friends. Francisco de Assis
Chateaubriand Bandeira de
Melo, the Chatô, was not born rich neither noble, but during his life
he became a king in Brazil.
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