TY - JOUR
T1 - The Politics of the Social Biographical Approach to Working-Class Leaders
AU - Nolan, Melanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s).
PY - 2023/4/1
Y1 - 2023/4/1
N2 - In this paper, I consider John French's biography, Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (2020). French discusses his methodology, which he characterizes as "a social biographical approach". I argue that this methodology is already in historians' toolkit. Historians writing biography seem to start with first premises rather than building on what went before. I thus contextualize the methodology, situating French's biography of Lula within more general shifts in approaches to biography.
AB - In this paper, I consider John French's biography, Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (2020). French discusses his methodology, which he characterizes as "a social biographical approach". I argue that this methodology is already in historians' toolkit. Historians writing biography seem to start with first premises rather than building on what went before. I thus contextualize the methodology, situating French's biography of Lula within more general shifts in approaches to biography.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0020859022000621
DO - 10.1017/S0020859022000621
M3 - Review article
SN - 0020-8590
VL - 68
SP - 123
EP - 134
JO - International Review of Social History
JF - International Review of Social History
IS - 1
ER -