PODER, AUTORIDADE E COMANDO: A INFLUÊNCIA VARGUISTA E O DISCURSO PERIODÍSTICO NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE LÍDERES POLÍTICOS EM TERESINA E PARNAÍBA (1937-1945)

Abstract

This research deals with issues relating to political and social leadership concerning publications in the Piauí press during the Estado Novo (1937-1945). In view of this, we will examine the creation of the leader as a phenomenon specific to the 20th century, which despite being conceived on the European continent, went beyond the borders of the Atlantic and established itself in South America, particularly in Brazil led by President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas and extension in the state of Piauí. Thus, we will focus on the thinking and repercussion of leadership theorists, in addition to the construction of Vargas as national leader by the local press in the periodicals Diário Oficial, Gazeta, in addition to Almanaque da Parnaíba and the commemorative work O Livro do Centenário de Parnaíba. The speeches in these publications appropriated the ideals of leadership to create their own regional leaders, therefore causing a mirroring that legitimized the construction of scales of power involving political and social leaders from the locality itself.