Mandetta’s book is made of resentment, revenge and has a political game. By Moisés Mendes

They are publishing pills from Luiz Henrique Mandetta’s book. But with each fragment that is published, the feeling is that we have another work with many curiosities and little density.

I will have the same interest in the book as in the music of the country duo Silveirinha and Silveirão. And I’ll tell you why.

A book like this, done in a hurry, is the result of the suffering of those who wrote it (or ordered it to be written). You have resentment, you have revenge, and you play politics.

It does not appear to be a book with relevant information, although it reaffirms Bolsonaro’s most grotesque face with details observed by those who were by his side.

From what I have read so far, Mandetta shows that the former boss is an insensitive and ignorant person unable to understand what the pandemic tragedy would be.

And he says that Onyx Lorenzoni took advantage of conversations with politicians and then blackmailed them. But who cares about Bolsonaro’s ignorance, cruelties and gossip about Onyx Lorenzoni?

The last behind-the-scenes politics from the mid-20th century, with some relevance, were Notícias do Planalto, by Mario Sergio Conti, on the power of the nucleus and the environment of Collor, and Elio Gaspari’s series on the dictatorship. .

They are two journalists, not politicians, who are trying to shoot former allies. Even journalist Taís Oyama’s book on Bolsonaro’s first year says almost nothing.

The only important revelation of Taís is contained in a phrase by Augusto Heleno, who refers to Bolsonaro, in a meeting with businessmen, as “an unsuspecting person.” The rest is a compilation of notes.

There is no way to write a book about a year of the most disqualified president Brazil has ever had.

Bolsonaro does not give up a book, not one of these to the draft. Subject would only render a book if someone spoke of his complicated relationships with the military.

But then the author would have to be a military man. He sent six generals away from the government. But none seem to have the profile of someone who can make disclosures.

Hierarchy and discipline do not allow it. All the generals that Bolsonaro despised and humiliated would have a lot to say.

A book about Bolsonaro’s mediocre civilians, without the pavilion and kitchen of the military, is worth as much as a book of sonnets by Alexandre García.