by Paul Preston · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497932011
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«Juan Carlos. El rey de un pueblo» is the biography of Juan Carlos I written by Paul Preston, published by Debolsillo in paperback (671 pages, in Spanish).
It investigates how Juan Carlos accepted being handed over by his father to Franco's regime and how a prince raised to sustain the dictatorship committed to democracy. Preston reviews the tension between the human and the dynastic, the formation of the future king, his role in the face of coup attempts, and the consolidation of the parliamentary monarchy.
Spanish edition published in 2004, translated by Eva Rodríguez Halffter. The edition includes the English subtitle «The King of the People» and belongs to the Bestseller collection.
For readers interested in the political history of Spain and in biographies of royalty.
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.
