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On 20 November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid shortly before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death, he had been the head of a dictatorial regime, retaining the title of Caudillo for almost 40 years. The Spanish historian Enrique Moradiños García portrays Franco in three dimensions: Franco as a man, Franco as a Caudillo, and Franco as a ruler of Spain. The author proposes a reassessment of Franco's personality, his leadership style, and the nature of the regime he founded and led until his death.

As a dictator who established his power before the outbreak of the Second World War and successfully maintained it until the mid-1970s, Franco was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century European history. For Spain, he is now a ghost from its recent sad past: uncomfortable, but still very real and significant. We know less about Franco than we do about Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin, and he was lucky enough to live a long life, to retain political influence and a positive public image for a long time. The study of the characteristics and historical evolution of his regime sheds new light on fundamental questions in European history, including the social and cultural basis of totalitarianism and authoritarianism as threats to democracy, and the foundations of political legitimacy based on the charisma of a leader.

Enrique Moradiños explores dictatorship and the dictator himself and reveals new aspects of the personality of General Franco-Caudillo.