More Than Three Meals per Day.

During his first inauguration as president of Brazil, speaking before the National Congress in Brasilia, on January 1, 2003, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva famously declared, "If by the end of my term all Brazilians have the chance to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I will have achieved my life's mission." Lula and His Politics of Cunning thoroughly delivers on its promise of telling an important history through "Lula's relationships with others" (4). Although he sometimes appears impatient with the amateurish mistakes and class biases of the young researchers at the University of São Paulo studying ABC during the 1970s, perhaps echoing the mistrust that Lula and his union peers often expressed about doutores and overzealous students, French makes exemplary use of these rich materials. [Extracted from the article]