America: Baroque and Gothic

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

This is a very good book, containing much more than its title promises. The bandeirantes were the extremely mobile, unstable and unsteady explorers and gold-diggers of early Brazil, while the pioneers are the men (and women) who pushed the United States from the Eastern littoral to the West Coast and thus became the human element of the frontier. Sr. Vianna Moog, a Brazilian himself, claims that the spirit of the bandeirantes and the pioneers has been the primary force in fashioning and forging the “American” and Brazilian national character and outlook. He is careful not to overstate his initial case; by adducing more and more factors and integrating one with the other, he is trying to find out why these two giants in the Western Hemisphere have had such radically different structures, outlooks and destinies.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

This is a very good book, containing much more than its title promises. The bandeirantes were the extremely mobile, unstable and unsteady explorers and gold-diggers of early Brazil, while the pioneers are the men (and women) who pushed the United States from the Eastern littoral to the West Coast and thus became the human element of the frontier. Sr. Vianna Moog, a Brazilian himself, claims that the spirit of the bandeirantes and the pioneers has been the primary force in fashioning and forging the “American” and Brazilian national character and outlook. He is careful not to overstate his initial case; by adducing more and more factors and integrating one with the other, he is trying to find out why these two giants in the Western Hemisphere have had such radically different structures, outlooks and destinies.