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Salazar: A Political Biography

Salazar: A Political Biography

de Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Political BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032455748
ISBN13: 9781032455747
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 622
Weight: 1.94
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Salazar: A Political Biography is the definitive biography of the longstanding Portuguese dictator.

António de Oliveira Salazar entered the government of Portugal when Herbert Hoover was president and ended his political career at the end of the Johnson administration. He remained in power for forty years (1928-1968), one of the longest tenures in modern history. Unlike the other 'great dictators' of the twentieth century, Salazar, an academic, immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate until illness forced his retirement. He successfully managed his country's finances despite the impact of the Great Depression, imposing a harsh policy of austerity. He then preserved Portugal's neutrality during the Second World War, ultimately favouring Great Britain and the United States. But Salazar was at heart an extremely conservative, even reactionary statesman. He relied on secrecy and a police state to maintain the order which, he believed, was necessary to control progress. Rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa, he plunged Portugal into a series of wars in Africa it could ill afford.

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