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Juan Carlos - Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (Paperback)
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Juan Carlos - Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy (Paperback)
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A powerful biography of Spain's great king, Juan Carlos, by the
pre-eminent writer on 20th-century Spanish history. There are two
central mysteries in the life of Juan Carlos, one personal, the
other political.The first is the apparent serenity with which he
accepted that his father had surrendered him, to all intents and
purposes, into the safekeeping of the Franco regime. In any normal
family, this would have been considered a kind of cruelty or, at
the very least, baleful negligence. But a royal family can never be
normal, and the decision to send the young Juan Carlos away from
Spain was governed by a certain 'superior' dynastic logic. The
second mystery lies in how a prince raised in a family with the
strictest authoritarian traditions, who was obliged to conform to
the Francoist norms during his youth and educated to be a
cornerstone of the plans for the reinforcement of the dictatorship,
eventually sided so emphatically and courageously with democratic
principles. Paul Preston - perhaps the greatest living commentator
on modern Spain - has set out to address these mysteries, and in so
doing has written the definitive biography of King Juan Carlos. He
tackles the king's turbulent relationship with his father, his
cloistered education, his bravery in defending Spain's infant
democracy after Franco's death and his immense hard work in
consolidating parliamentary democracy in Spain. The resulting
biography is both rigorous and riveting, its vibrant prose doing
justice to its vibrant subject. It is a book fit for a king.
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