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A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
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Author:
Paul Preston
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
June 16, 2020
Not only a history of modern Spain but also a larger narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world.
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Paul Preston is Britain’s foremost historian of contemporary Spain. A People Betrayed is a magisterial study of its turbulent past, seen through the optic of those apparently ineradicable twins: corruption and political incompetence.
... tremendously rich and learned.
... prodigiously detailed and absorbing.
Preston has written a Spanish history about a period so steeped in assassination, mob violence, civilian bloodshed, corruption and failed governments that about halfway through reading it I wondered if I had the grit to carry on.
