Order and Legitimacy: Political Thought in National Spain

A growing body of readers is rediscovering Francis Graham Wilson's tremendous contribution to the study of politics and humane learning. In this volume he offers an extensive assessment of the nature of politics and the search for order in Spanish politics, concentrating on the central figures who defended the Church and communities during the Spanish Civil War.

The book argues for the uniqueness of Spain among the other countries of Europe. For Wilson, the most salutary attribute of Spanis...