Latin Fascist Elites: The Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar Regimes

by Paul H. Lewis

Many dictatorships are short-lived, but a few manage to stay in power for decades. Lewis takes three Latin fascist tyrants--Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar--and shows how they perpetuated their rule through the careful recruitment and circulation of top-echelon subordinates to carry out their orders.

Long-established dictatorships have to respond to political and social pressures surrounding them, just as democracies do, but it is harder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027597880X
• ISBN13: 9780275978808
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Latin Fascist Elites

Hail! To Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco and Antonio Oliveira Salazar were great leaders that we must appreciate and imitate today; they had a vision for the development of the future and the betterment of humanity. They all governed their countries in the RIGHT direction. This book will inform the reader of each individual how they came to power, and their traits to rule the country and people; you will admire their talent and codes of ethics.