by Pedro Sáinz Rodríguez · PLANETA: ESPEJO DE ESPAÑA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432056413
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«Testimonio y recuerdos» is the autobiographical work by Pedro Sáinz Rodríguez, published by Planeta in 1978 in hardcover (419 pages, in Spanish).
The author, an intellectual and political figure of 20th-century Spain, evokes his trajectory from the university and the Ateneo de Madrid to national politics: the dictatorship, the Second Republic, the Civil War, his work as Minister of Education, exile in Portugal, and his contacts with the main figures of Spanish public life.
Work number 41 of the collection «Espejo de España», in its Biographies and Memoirs series. Includes an index of Pedro Sáinz Rodríguez's publications between 1914 and 1977.
Aimed at readers of the political and cultural history of 20th-century Spain and at scholars of its memoirs and biographies.
Pedro Sainz Rodríguez was a Spanish writer, philologist, publisher and politician, an adviser to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and one of the main architects of the reign of Juan Carlos I of Spain and the Spanish transition to democracy. Within the wide coalition of right-wing opinion that was the early movement behind Francisco Franco he was the leading figure of the monarchist wing. In terms of character Sainz Rodríguez was noted for his quick wit, whilst physically he was known for his obesity.
