by Paul Preston · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441320611
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«Juan Carlos, el rey de un pueblo» is the biography of King Juan Carlos I written by Paul Preston, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (317 pages, in Spanish).
Biography of Juan Carlos I in which Paul Preston investigates how a prince educated to sustain the Franco dictatorship ended up defending democracy. It analyzes his commitment to Franco's regime, his relationship with his father, his role in the attempted coup d'état and the consolidation of parliamentary democracy in Spain.
Volume I of the ABC collection Biografías Vivas. The work was originally published in English as «Juan Carlos: A People's King».
For those interested in contemporary Spanish history, the Transition and the monarchy.
Sir Paul Preston CBE is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.
