Adolfo Suárez : Ambición y destino

Appointed unexpectedly as president of an authoritarian government in July 1976 and resigned just as unexpectedly as president of a democracy in January 1981, Adolfo Suárez's personal and political trajectory perhaps symbolizes better than any other what Spain was like in the final years of the Franco regime and during the transition to democracy. Hated to the point of pathology by many during his heyday, and later praised by the majority, Suárez is undoubtedly a key figure in the construction of democracy. In this extraordinary biography, Gregorio Morán, author of a first and controversial book about Suárez in 1979, revisits the figure not only to tell us about the rest of his career, up to the now-famous photograph with the King on July 18, 2008, but also to reevaluate, in light of contemporary Spain, a fundamental period in our recent history.