Como se faz um presidente: a narrativa da campanha de JK segundo Edward Anthony Riedinger

Abstract

This research purpose is to examine the production Como se faz um presidente of the author Edward Anthony Riedinger. Mr. Riedinger literary work was published in Brazil in 1988, as part of the author Ph.D. program on Chicago University in 1978. The author analyzed the Brazilian presidential run of 1955, with focus on Mr. Juscelino Kubitschek campaign. Riedinger have worked as Juscelino’s secretary, having the opportunity of recording interviews with Juscelino himself and others prominent politicians. Considering that Como se faz um presidente was written by an north american author about a Brazilian historical moment, it can be considered a brazilianist production and it is a distinguished composition fulfilling a lack of researches about that particular time, especially in comparison with the amount of papers regarding JK government and his economic policy. This work has a particular aim of to display some possible relations between Mr. Riedinger written work and brazilianists ones, also depicting the book excerpts. In addition, this written work studies how historical documents can be used to serve to a proper events narration way based on people participant’s perspectives. Como se faz um presidente was written close to the information sources of its historic case, bringing all related events in a historical perspective named by some specialists as time present history.