Iván Redondo (in the photo) is said to be the man who knows everything, but about whom no one knows anything. In The Manual, he performs a prodigious exercise of memory to show, with total sincerity, the steps he has taken to arrive, from his working-class neighborhood in Donosti, to the offices of the Palacio de la Moncloa.
A unique account, in the first person, where he speaks with total transparency about his adolescence and the discovery of ETA terrorism, how he balanced studies with precarious jobs to pay for his degree, when his love for politics and communication was born, and how he rose in the field of political advising, about which, until then, almost nothing was written in Spain.
There is also success, disenchantment, unexpected twists, innovation, and the great final leap to reach the Moncloa and a position, that of the head of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government of Spain, which put him in the media spotlight at a crucial moment in history.
Everything is here. The hopes and disappointments, the accomplices and the enemies, the audacity and the detailed chronicle of those intricacies of power to which readers never have access, as well as the day-to-day life in the hallways, the loyalties, and the successes and failures that, little by little, led him to shape his own personal and professional manual to reach the highest and change things.
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Contraluz Editorial
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9791387810696
Price: 21.37 euros