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For listeners of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing story of an country's spectacular surge and street to redemption, intertwined with the storyplot of Brazil's wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista - a general report of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper interpretation of this time of billionaires. When Bloomberg Information invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil's appearing class of billionaires at the level of the historic Brazilian growth, he was poised to cover two of the largest business stories of our own time: the way the giants of the producing world were triumphantly taking their place at the center of global capitalism and how prosperity inequality was changing societies almost everywhere. The billionaires of Brazil and their considerable fortunes resided at the very top with their country's economic pyramid, and whether they quietly accumulated exceptional electric power or extravagantly exhibited their decadence, they shaped a potent microcosm of the world's richest .001 percent. Eike Batista, a flamboyant and charismatic evangelist for the country's new gospel of prosperity, epitomized much of this rarefied sphere: In 2012 Batista ranked as the eighth-richest person on earth, was well-known for his marriage to a beauty queen, and was a fixture in the Brazilian press. His constantly repeated ambition was to be the world's richest man and bring Brazil along with him to the most notable. But by 2015 Batista was bankrupt; his son, Thor, have been indicted for manslaughter; and Brazil - its president facing impeachment, its provinces combating an epidemic, and its business and political class torn apart by scandal - acquired become a cautionary tale of an country run aground by its elites. Within the four years Cuadros was on the billionaire defeat, he reported on marketing moguls and televangelists, energy barons and shadowy statistics from the years of armed forces dictatorship, soy barons who resided on the outskirts of the Amazon . com and new-economy billionaires spinning money from speculation. He learned precisely how deeply they all come to into Brazilian life. They presented sway on the economy, government, marketing, and stewardship of the surroundings; they determined the spiritual fates and populated the imaginations with their countrymen. Cuadros' zealous reporting needs us from penthouses to courtrooms, from favelas to luxurious artwork fairs, from views of unimaginable prosperity to desperate, considerable street protests. Inside a business narrative that deftly clarifies and dramatizes the volatility of the global economy, Cuadros offers us literary journalism with a grand sweep.
