Now that Vox has revived the Francoist spirit and made it blatant, it's worth explaining exactly what the dictatorship was. Let's be blunt: it was a savage act and a complete disaster. Mediocrity in power for forty years. Who better than an authoritative voice like that of the historian Josep Fontana (1931-2018) to provide a summary? His perspective is as informed as it is relentless. FrancoismJoaquim Albareda and Jaume Claret have compiled for the Eumo publishing house a devastating selection of Fontana's texts on the period. It was not his main subject of study, but it was an obsession, a self-imposed professional, historical, and civic-political duty.