Carlos Lacerda: The Rise and Fall of a Middle-Class Populist in 1950s Brazil
2. For an academic treatment of the suicide, see John W. F. Dulles, Vargas of Brazil: A Political Biography (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1967), 327–37; and the essays in Ángela Maria de Castro Gomes, ed., Vargas e a crise dos anos ’50 (Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1994). Rubem Fonseca’s Agosto (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1990) was adapted as a TV Globo miniseries in 1993. The museum exhibition is housed in the Palácio do Catete, now the Museu da República, in the bedroom where Vargas shot himself. The popular