How did you go from Francoism to democracy? This book explains the secrets as if it were a Poe detective story.

There was no break in the transition from Francoism to democracy, but rather a transition, and this book analyzes the laws that facilitated it between 1969 and 1978. But, as if it were a detective novel, it looks for clues further back and investigates the maneuvers of the regime since the sixties to leave everything tied and well tied.

As the authors say: «The story of the conversion of Francoism into the constitutional system of 1978 seems like one of those family secrets that are considered unpronounceable, a secret history that cannot be taught in schools. Or as the prefect of the Paris police says in “The Purloined Letter,” Poe's story: “This is an affair demanding the greatest secrecy.”»