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Article: Franco.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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By Sheelagh Ellwood. (New York Longnian, 1994. Pp. 253. $19.50.
As dull of intellect as he was provincial in his tastes, veiled by his inscrutable personal silence and monotone "God and patria" harangues, Francisco Franco was not the stuff of epic biography Yet this was the man who ran Spain for nearly forty years. He is the giant shadow of Spanish history; we can read much about "Franco's Spain" but little of Franco himself, save for some anecdotal testimonies to his banality or cruelty.
The 1992 centennial of Franco's birth was a good occasion for historians to fill this void. Several biographies have come out, the most noteworthy by Juan Pablo Fusi, ...