Author: Julián Casanova.
Nobody has influenced the contemporary history of Spain as much as Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975). However, despite his omnipresence, the dictator remains an unknown person, hidden behind a tangle of apriorisms and clichés, manichaeism and lies. Professor Julián Casanova, the best historian of his generation and the greatest expert on the period, offers an informed and revealing biography about the person and character who determined the destinies of Spain for four decades.
Fifty years after his death, Julian Casanova reveals aspects unknown to his contemporaries and draws the definitive portrait of the dictator for the new generations. For this, he has researched dozens of testimonials, books and documents that, with the help of a whole academic and research career, allow him an approach as precise and novel as relevant and suggestive.
Franco began the assault on power with a military uprising and got it by blood and fire in a civil war. Until then, he had been one more among his media brothers, among the ruthless Africanists and among the rising stars tempted by the counter-revolution. The assumption of absolute power profoundly changed both his personality and his external projection and his inner circle. Despite not having a well-established ideological or programmatic body and its scarce charisma, its legacy is part of our more recent past. Today, with this masterful account, the biographical reconstruction is complete.
Pages: 528
Publisher: Editorial Crítica
Binding: Hard cover
ISBN: 9788491997160
RPP: 21,75
