James Green has produced a pathbreaking portrait that combines compelling biography with critical historiographical contributions. Herbert Daniel, an important figure in Brazil's left-wing politics and revolutionary movements, transformed his early struggle with homosexual desire into a career as a champion for gender, sexual, environmental, and social justice. Green's vivid portrait is in itself a feat, given the multiple layers of clandestinity (underground guerrilla activity, closeted sexuality) that led Daniel to obscure major portions of his experiences. The narrative unfolds chronologically, as we follow Daniel from bookish child to medical student who blossomed into an activist and eventually an armed militant. From Daniel's vital participation in the campaigns to foment armed revolution in Brazil, the book moves into his long exile, a time when his grief at leaving Brazil coincided with an increasing freedom to openly acknowledge his sexual and romantic desires. (Desires, it bears mentioning, which he had repressed to...

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