{"product_id":"the-brazil-chronicles-9780826223159","title":"The Brazil Chronicles","description":"As a young journalist at the \u003ci\u003eBrazil Herald\u003c\/i\u003e from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e. The expat newspaper was a breeding ground for a different kind of storyteller -- audacious risk-takers who told madcap tales of Amazon plantations, Confederate emigres, and lost Indian tribes. Several renown journalists cut their teeth at the \u003ci\u003eBrazil Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, including acclaimed New York Times correspondent Tad Szulc, Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and an untamed Gonzo reporter by the name of Hunter S. Thompson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing from extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews with his former colleagues, Bloom's eye-opening narrative dive is both entertaining and academically rigorous. With a backdrop of coups, nonstop political instability, censorship, hyper-inflation, and weekends at sultry Ipanema Beach, \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e doubles as a coming-of-age memoir, following young Bloom as he embarks on his quest to become a foreign correspondent, relocating to a foreign country to pursue under-the-radar stories and tall tales. His firsthand experience provides an insider, eye-witness account of the newspaper's colorful history, transporting the reader to its sweltering newsroom and delving into the multifarious lives of its eclectic, trailblazing, polyglot staff. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even as Bloom weaves between personal narrative, history, and accounts from journalism luminaries, it's clear who the book's main character is: the one-of-a-kind newspaper itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen G. Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist and author of six nonfiction books, \u003ci\u003ePostville\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Inside the Writer's Mind\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Oxford Project\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Tears of Mermaids; The Audacity of Inez Burns\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes. \u003c\/i\u003eA former reporter for the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dallas Morning News, \u003c\/i\u003ehe is a professor of journalism at the University of Iowa. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50899539394834,"sku":"9780826223159","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7413f30c-a45e-4019-9e24-004892ffd986.jpg?v=1738359455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-brazil-chronicles-9780826223159","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}