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Mário Soares - Uma Vida 1924-2024
Mário Soares, um dos pais fundadores do regime democrático português, é visto como a figura mais relevante do pós-25 de Abril de 1974.
Com formação em História e Direito, foi primeiro‑ministro três vezes e cumpriu dois mandatos como presidente da República, tendo sido o primeiro civil eleito para o cargo por sufrágio direto e universal. Concluiu o processo de negociação para a integração de Portugal na (futura) União Europeia e assinou o respetivo tratado. Apesar das suas políticas nem sempre gerarem consenso, forjou uma estreita relação afetiva com o povo português, que o tratava carinhosamente por O Bochechas.
A presente biografia é um retrato de corpo inteiro desta personalidade histórica, desde as suas determinantes ações políticas até às facetas mais agitadas da sua vida privada.
Com formação em História e Direito, foi primeiro‑ministro três vezes e cumpriu dois mandatos como presidente da República, tendo sido o primeiro civil eleito para o cargo por sufrágio direto e universal. Concluiu o processo de negociação para a integração de Portugal na (futura) União Europeia e assinou o respetivo tratado. Apesar das suas políticas nem sempre gerarem consenso, forjou uma estreita relação afetiva com o povo português, que o tratava carinhosamente por O Bochechas.
A presente biografia é um retrato de corpo inteiro desta personalidade histórica, desde as suas determinantes ações políticas até às facetas mais agitadas da sua vida privada.
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1120 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
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December 6, 2024
"My ideas came from my father and his friends. My house breathed politics."
Mario Soares
Well, not quite. His ideas came also from the Portuguese Communist Party, whose leader Soares admired, for a while. It's in the book. Soares sent a letter to Cunhal, looking for "advice".
Soares' father was once a Catholic priest, but, it seems, he renounced and became a Mason.
The author of the present biography tells us that he met Soares, for the first time, in Paris, a little bit before the 25th of April 1974 [year of the Carnations Revolution]. Again they met, in 1986, before the presidential elections, Soares would win.
Curiously enough Vieira considers Soares a man with a greed for power unmatched: he was communist before being anti-communist; and anti-NATO before subscribing to its chart/Treaty.
(pals, Cunhal and Soares)
More curious is the fact that Soares (now a president) ordered an investigation on the life of the author...; you go figure.
Soares had three tutors; one of them being the philosopher Agostinho da Silva, as a tutor for "general culture". He wasn't a brilliant student in any way. In college he got enroled in History-Philosophy. He had had an aptitude exam with the following marks*: 10 in History, 12 in Philosophy, 14 in Portuguese.
No doubts, as nobody else in Portuguese politics, he reached the pinnacle of the political hierarchy: as president of the Republic; also as PM, as minister, as MP. As chief of the Portuguese Socialist party, as well. Nonetheless, he had ideological contradictions in his trajectory. Some used to say that he put "socialism inside the drawer" at a certain point of his career.
UPDATE
He would turn 100 years by this time. Some find reason to celebrate, even to entitle him to a garden in Porto city.
(In: Jornal i, December the 3rd)
However, some didn't like the number of his travels. How many times did he circle the planet?
(In: Caras)
*on a scale 0-20
Mario Soares
Well, not quite. His ideas came also from the Portuguese Communist Party, whose leader Soares admired, for a while. It's in the book. Soares sent a letter to Cunhal, looking for "advice".
Soares' father was once a Catholic priest, but, it seems, he renounced and became a Mason.
The author of the present biography tells us that he met Soares, for the first time, in Paris, a little bit before the 25th of April 1974 [year of the Carnations Revolution]. Again they met, in 1986, before the presidential elections, Soares would win.
Curiously enough Vieira considers Soares a man with a greed for power unmatched: he was communist before being anti-communist; and anti-NATO before subscribing to its chart/Treaty.
(pals, Cunhal and Soares)
More curious is the fact that Soares (now a president) ordered an investigation on the life of the author...; you go figure.
Soares had three tutors; one of them being the philosopher Agostinho da Silva, as a tutor for "general culture". He wasn't a brilliant student in any way. In college he got enroled in History-Philosophy. He had had an aptitude exam with the following marks*: 10 in History, 12 in Philosophy, 14 in Portuguese.
No doubts, as nobody else in Portuguese politics, he reached the pinnacle of the political hierarchy: as president of the Republic; also as PM, as minister, as MP. As chief of the Portuguese Socialist party, as well. Nonetheless, he had ideological contradictions in his trajectory. Some used to say that he put "socialism inside the drawer" at a certain point of his career.
UPDATE
He would turn 100 years by this time. Some find reason to celebrate, even to entitle him to a garden in Porto city.
(In: Jornal i, December the 3rd)
However, some didn't like the number of his travels. How many times did he circle the planet?
(In: Caras)
*on a scale 0-20
August 24, 2023
Biografia extremamente interessante, que mistura um protagonista com uma vida rica em acontecimentos com uma prosa que prende e dá detalhe (sem o fazer em demasia).
Soares é uma pessoa contraditória, capaz de merecer respeito pelo seu papel na Revolução e construção democrática, enquanto simultaneamente é uma pessoa com falhas bastante nítidas. O autor dá sempre os dois lados da questão, inclusive por vezes uma nota própria irónica sempre apreciada.
Soares é uma pessoa contraditória, capaz de merecer respeito pelo seu papel na Revolução e construção democrática, enquanto simultaneamente é uma pessoa com falhas bastante nítidas. O autor dá sempre os dois lados da questão, inclusive por vezes uma nota própria irónica sempre apreciada.
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