John Wirth was proud to be a native of New Mexico and one of the pioneer Brazilianists of the early 1960s. With his Harvard B.A. (1958, Magna cum laude) in hand, he had gone back West to study for his Ph.D. (1966) with John Johnson at Stanford. He turned a seminar paper into a seminal article (“Tenentismo in the Brazilian Revolution of 1930”) that appeared in this journal in May 1964. With this pioneering piece of research, he announced his entry into Brazilian studies. He went to Brazil with a dissertation project to study the politically active National Student Union, but to his dismay he found that its headquarters and archives had burned completely in the crisis of March–April 1964. With agility and determination, he came up with a new topic that studied Vargas-era developmentalism from the perspectives of international trade and the creation of the core industries of...

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