国王的覆灭 胡安·卡洛斯的传记（西班牙历史学家保罗.普雷斯顿）Downfall of a KingPaul Preston

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Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780008741105

ISBN-10: 0008741107

Author: Paul Preston

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint: William Collins

Format: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 544

Release Date: 18 June 2026

Weight: 270g

Dimensions: 240mm x 159mm x 21mm

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书籍简介

本书以引人入胜的笔触和深入的研究，讲述了胡安·卡洛斯国王跌落神坛的传奇故事。

作为西班牙现代史的专家，保罗·普雷斯顿在此书中揭露了导致这位昔日英雄陨落的错综复杂的财务和性丑闻。几十年来，卡洛斯国王在西班牙备受爱戴，广受欢迎——部分原因在于佛朗哥去世后，他勇敢地捍卫了西班牙的民主。然而，他的秘密逐渐被揭开，在2012年4月他离开马德里一家医院时出现在电视镜头前，引爆了这场风暴。震惊全国的民众听到他发表了一份声明，这在任何一位西班牙国家元首——无论是君主还是共和主义者——的口中都是罕见的：“我非常抱歉。我犯了一个错误，这样的事不会再发生了。”

随后，他被曝在博茨瓦纳与一位并非其妻子的女子一同猎象时身负重伤，这一消息彻底打开了人们窥探其婚外情的大门。随后，媒体对他的财务不当行为展开了调查，并诉诸司法。铺天盖地的负面报道导致他于2014年6月2日被迫退位，并于2020年8月开始在阿布扎比过着奢华的流亡生活。

保罗·普雷斯顿的这本精彩传记讲述了国王公开崩溃的故事，并指出胡安·卡洛斯不幸的童年和成长经历是他自我毁灭的根源。普雷斯顿还深刻揭露了西班牙统治阶层内部的腐败规模，并将国王的垮台置于西班牙自身身份认同危机的背景下进行分析，因为西班牙仍在努力摆脱其法西斯历史的阴影。

A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace.

Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, here lays bare the complex web of financial and sexual excess that led to the hero’s vertiginous downfall. For decades, King Carlos was immensely popular in Spain and much beloved – in part because of his courageous defence of Spanish democracy after Franco’s death. However, his secrets’ gradual exposure was detonated in April 2012 by his appearance on television cameras as he left a Madrid hospital. An astonished nation heard him make a declaration unprecedented from the lips of any Spanish Head of State, royal or republican: ‘I am very sorry. I have made a mistake and it will not happen again’.

Revelations that he had been badly injured while elephant hunting in Botswana accompanied by a woman who was not his wife opened the floodgates to prurient research into his marital infidelities. From there, it was a short step to journalistic, followed by judicial, investigation into his financial misdemeanours. The consequent accumulation of hostile coverage culminated in his abdication on 2 June 2014 and, from August 2020, a gilded exile in Abu Dhabi.

Paul Preston’s spectacular biography tells the story of the King’s very public implosion and identifies the seeds of self-destruction in Juan Carlos’s unhappy childhood and upbringing. In so doing, Preston also throws a penetrating light on the massive scale of corruption within the Spanish establishment and sets the King’s downfall against Spain’s own identity crisis as it continues to grapple with its fascist past.

作者简介

保罗·普雷斯顿爵士（CBE）是伦敦政治经济学院国际历史学教授。他曾任雷丁大学讲师和伦敦玛丽女王大学现代史教授。他是英国科学院院士，并担任欧洲青年学院马塞尔·普鲁斯特教席教授。他曾被西班牙和英国的多所大学授予荣誉博士学位。2006年，他荣获加泰罗尼亚政府颁发的拉蒙·柳利国际奖；2018年，荣获格尔尼卡和平奖。

SIR PAUL PRESTON CBE is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Reading and Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds the Marcel Proust Chair of the European Academy of Yuste. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by universities in Spain and the UK. In 2006, he was awarded the International Ramon Llull Prize by the Catalan Government and, in 2018, the Guernica Peace Prize.