John W. F. Dulles

John Watson Foster Dulles (May 20, 1913 – June 23, 2008) was an American scholar of Brazilian history.

Biography Born in Auburn, New York, on May 20, 1913, John W.F. Dulles was the son of the former Secretary of State of the United States of America, John Foster Dulles. In 1935 he graduated in philosophy from Princeton University. He received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1937 and then joined the Bank of New York, where his father was a director.

He worked in a New York mining company where he was sent to Arizona where he received a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the University of Arizona's School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1943.

In 1959 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to fix an unprofitable Hanna Mining Co. gold mine in the country.

He died on June 23, 2008, at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. His cause of death was kidney failure.

Works

Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936 – 1962 Vargas of Brazil: a political biography – 1967 Anarchists and communists in Brazil, 1900–1935 – 1973 Unrest in Brazil: political military crisis, 1955–1964 – 1980 President Castello Branco: the making of a Brazilian president – 1978 President Castello Branco: a Brazilian reformer – 1980 Brazilian communism: repression during world upheaval, 1935–1945 – 1983 A Faculdade de Direito e a resistência anti-Vargas, 1938–1945 – 1984 Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian cruzader – 1991 Castello Branco: o caminho para a presidência – 1979 Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian cruzader: the years 1960–1977 – 1996 Sobral Pinto, a consciência do Brasil: a cruzada contra o regime Vargas (1930–1945) – 2001 Resisting Brazil's military regime: an account of the battles of Sobral Pinto – 2007