Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Iam grateful to Mauricio Cardenas, director of the Brookings Latin American Initiative, for his many suggestions and his active engagement in moving the manuscript to publication. Everyone at the Brookings Institution Press has been helpful as the final form of the book took shape. To Columbia University and SIPA, I owe thanks for partially underwriting this volume. Over my recent years there in the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for Brazilian Studies, Tom Trebat has been central, offering administrative and intellectual help. Discussions with Alfred Stepan, Vicky Murillo, and faculty visitors from the region have contributed as well. I note especially the administrative assistance of Teresa Aguayo and Eliza Kwon-Ahn. They have helped well beyond the ordinary, not only on this project, but on several others. I have accumulated many debts since I first visited Brazil in 1965. Were I to list here all of my students and colleagues to whom I am indebted, the list would be substantial. The contributions of my master’s and doctoral students from Brazil have been central. These students have become personal friends and valued tutors, as have other Brazilians from all professions whom I have had the good fortune to meet and learn from. Colleagues at Berkeley and Yale, and elsewhere, also have had a positive influence. I acknowledge specifically only my personal friends, Faith and Jerry Jaffe and Molly Poag, whose presence has been important to completion. 00-2143-7 fm.indd 9 6/6/11 2:25 PM x   Acknowledgments Last to acknowledge is my family. They will find that order totally appropriate. Over the years, my three children, their spouses, and nine grandchildren have come to accept and understand my commitment to Brazil, and my consequent frequent absences, both physical and mental. To my wife, Harriet, I dedicate this book, as I did my first more than forty-five years ago. (That first volume dealt with railroads in the United States before the Civil War—quite a different subject.) Without her wise and generous support in so many ways, neither volume—nor my intervening evolution southward—would ever have been possible. 00-2143-7 fm.indd 10 6/6/11 2:25 PM ...