John Watson Foster Dulles (May 20, 1913 – June 23, 2008) was an American scholar of

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Biography

Born in

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, on May 20, 1913, John W.F. Dulles was the son of the former Secretary of State of the United States of America, John Foster Dulles. In 1935 he graduated in philosophy from Princeton University. He received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1937 and then joined the

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, where his father was a director. He worked in a New York mining company where he was sent to

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where he received a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the

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's School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1943. In 1959 he moved to

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, to fix an unprofitable Hanna Mining Co. gold mine in the country. The task proved too difficult due to the political turbulence in Brazil at the time, so in 1962 he moved to

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to become a professor of

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at the

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. His first book, published in 1962, ''Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936'', was the result of conversations with the Mexican president

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. Later on he dedicated himself to the study of Brazilian history, starting with the study about former president

Getúlio Vargas Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (; 19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazi ...

, entitled ''Vargas of Brazil: a political biography'' in 1967. His works were criticized for having too much description and too little analysis, as well as for not mentioning his part and of his company in the political articulations during the

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government.CARRIJO, Maicon Vinícius da Silva. John Watson Foster Dulles (1913–2008): a vocational historian. Estud. hist. (Rio J.) vol.21 no.42 Rio de Janeiro July/Dec. 2008 He died on June 23, 2008, at North Central Baptist Hospital in

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. His cause of death was

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Works

* ''Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936'' – 1962 * ''Vargas of Brazil: a political biography'' – 1967 * ''Anarchists and communists in Brazil, 1900–1935'' – 1973 * ''Unrest in Brazil: political military crisis, 1955–1964'' – 1980 * ''President Castello Branco: the making of a Brazilian president'' – 1978 * ''President Castello Branco: a Brazilian reformer'' – 1980 * ''Brazilian communism: repression during world upheaval, 1935–1945'' – 1983 * ''A Faculdade de Direito e a resistência anti-Vargas, 1938–1945'' – 1984 * ''Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian cruzader'' – 1991 * ''Castello Branco: o caminho para a presidência'' – 1979 * ''Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian cruzader: the years 1960–1977'' – 1996 * ''Sobral Pinto, a consciência do Brasil: a cruzada contra o regime Vargas (1930–1945)'' – 2001 * ''Resisting Brazil's military regime: an account of the battles of Sobral Pinto'' – 2007

References

External links

John W. F. Dulles Interview
''Pursue The Passion'', 8 October 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dulles, John WF 1913 births 2008 deaths People from Auburn, New York Princeton University alumni 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers University of Texas at Austin faculty Harvard Business School alumni Historians from New York (state) Brazilianists 20th-century American male writers