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Franco - The Biography of the Myth (Paperback, New)
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Franco - The Biography of the Myth (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge Historical Biographies
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General Francisco Franco, also called the Caudillo, was the
dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. His life has
been examined in many previous biographies. However, most of these
have been traditional, linear biographies that focus on Franco's
military and political careers, neglecting the significance of who
exactly Franco was for the millions of Spaniards over whom he ruled
for almost forty years. In this new biography Antonio
Cazorla-Sanchez looks at Franco from a fresh perspective,
emphasizing the cultural and social over the political.
Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco uses previously unknown archival sources
to analyse how the dictator was portrayed by the propaganda
machine, how the opposition tried to undermine his prestige, and
what kind of opinions, rumours and myths people formed of him, and
how all these changed over time. The author argues that the
collective construction of Franco's image emerged from a context of
material needs, the political traumas caused by the Spanish Civil
War (1936-1939), the complex cultural workings of a society in
distress, political manipulation, and the lack of any meaningful
public debate. Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco is a study of Franco's life
as experienced and understood by ordinary people; by those who
loved or admired him, by those who hated or disliked him, and more
generally, by those who had no option but to accommodate their
existence to his rule. The book has a significance that goes well
beyond Spain, as Cazorla-Sanchez explores the all-too-common
experience of what it is like to live under the deep shadow cast by
an always officially praised, ever present, and long lasting
dictator.
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