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Antonio 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. As a young man he planned to enter the priesthood and attended the seminary until he decided to become a political economist and an academic. Unlike the other "great dictators" of the twentieth century, including Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler, Salazar immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate throughout his forty years in power. He managed his country’s finances and economy—one of the poorest in Western Europe—successfully during the Great Depression. He became a seasoned diplomat who spared Portugal from the horrors of World War II by remaining strictly neutral, ultimately favoring Great Britain and the United States. But Salazar would always remain an extremely conservative, even reactionary statesman who relied on secrecy and a police state, appearing to favor fascism, fearing modernity, and ultimately rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa. He saw the universal granting of independence to the colonies as a sign that the West was abdicating its civilizing mission. This is the first full-length English-language scholarly biography of a key Portuguese political leader and an icon of twentieth-century politics.
File Size: 7587 KB
Print Length: 544 pages
Publisher: Enigma Books; 1 edition (November 1, 2009)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004HW7Z6O
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Anyone who has tried to find a book (in English) on Portuguese history, let alone Portugal in the 20th Century, will be well aware of the fact that there are very few to be found. It is for this reason that anyone interested in the subject will welcome the publication of Dr. Filipe De Meneses' excellent political biography of Antonio Salazar. In fact, I am willing to bet that this book would be widely appreciated even if it were half as good as it turned out to be.This meticulously detailed study covers Salazar's rise to prominence and subsequent control of Portugal, a nation he essentially led for 40 years, until illness forced him to step down in 1968. The four decades of Salazar's rule were far from tranquil, and he was forced to navigate Portugal through the tumultous events that were occurring just beyond its borders. Salazar had a role to play in the Spanish Civil War, World War 2, and the Cold War. The final years of Salazar's rule were devoted to fighting for retention of Portugal's overseas possessions in Africa.The chapters on Salazar's diplomatic activity during World War 2 are particularly strong, and should be of interest to anyone who wants to study the history of the war from a new angle. Most studies of World War 2 devote little more than a page or two to Portugal's role in the war, and this book does much to illustrate why this lack of coverage is unjust(while Portugal did stay neutral in the conflict, Salazar played an important diplomatic role, dealing with the leaders of both the Axis and Allied powers).The section of the book devoted to the colonial wars Portugal participated in are also quite strong (though by necessity the coverage largely ends with Salazar's death; the wars continued for another several years).
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