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Antn̤io de Oliveira Salazar entered the government of Portugal when Herbert Hoover was president and concluded his political career at the end of the Johnson Administration. He remained in power for forty years: from 1928 to 1968, one of the longest tenures in modern history. Different in style from Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, he constantly immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate throughout his entire time at the helm. He skillfully managed his country's finances and economy, one of the poorest in Western Europe, during the Great Depression And he spared Portugal the horrors of World War II by remaining strictly neutral, ultimately favoring Great Britain, the United States and the Allies But Salazar would always remain an extreme conservative, and even a reactionary statesman who relied on secrecy and a pokice state, appearing to favor fascism at one point, fearing modermity and ultimately rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa. This is the first full-length English-language in-depth biography of a key world political leader who left his unique imprint on the 20th century

Author

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses

Publisher

New York: Enigma Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282747593

Subjects

History, Humanities