Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés (born 1955 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

) is a Spanish historian specialized in contemporary history. Born in 1955 in

, he is professor at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

. His works cover contemporary history and socialism in Spain, including biographies of José Marchena,

Francisco Largo Caballero Francisco Largo Caballero (15 October 1869 – 23 March 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist who served as the prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He was one of the historic leaders of the ...

Luis Araquistáin Luis Araquistáin Quevedo (Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Cantabria, Spain, 1886 – Geneva, Switzerland, 1959) was a Spanish politician and writer. Member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from a young age, he belonged to the circle ...

, and

Adolfo Suárez Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (; 25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister of Spain, prime minister since the Second Spanish Republi ...

. He collaborated with Javier Fernández Sebastián, with whom he wrote ''Historia del periodismo español'' and ''Diccionario político y social del siglo XX español''.

Works

*''José Marchena: biografía política e intelectual'' (Crítica, 1989) *(Coauthor: Javier Fernández Sebastián) ''Historia del periodismo español. Prensa, política y opinión pública en la España contemporánea (Editorial Síntesis, 1997)'' *''Luis Araquistáin y el socialismo español en el exilio (1939-1959)'' (Biblioteca Nueva, 2002). *''Largo Caballero: el Lenin español'' (Síntesis, 2005) *''El fin del Antiguo Régimen (1808-1868). Política y sociedad'' (Síntesis, 2007) *''Adolfo Suárez: biografía política'' (Editorial Planeta, 2011) *''Con el rey y contra el rey. Los socialistas y la Monarquía'' (La Esfera, 2016)

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