{"product_id":"brazillionaires","title":"Brazillionaires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Business Book of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWealth and power on the trail of the super-rich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 2012 Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible natural resources. By the middle of 2013 he had lost it all engulfed in scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrazillionaires \u003c\/i\u003eis a fast-paced account of Batista's rise and fall: a story of helicopter flights beach-front penthouses and high-speed car crashes. Along the way it tells the parallel story of Brazil itself a country caught in the cycle of boom and bust renewed hope and dashed promise; a country where the hyper-rich are at the heart of the economy - and where their wealth can buy immense political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Zweig said in 1941 that Brazil was the country of the future; Brazilians joke that it always will be. Today rampant corruption and endemic inequality threaten to derail the new Brazilian Dream. The brazillionaires are the key to understanding that dream; through them \u003ci\u003eBrazillionaires \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of their country's past present and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791179870387,"sku":"9781781253885","price":520.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478119839781781253885.jpg?v=1762853205","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/brazillionaires","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}