Chacón

"Carme Chacón always lived as if she didn't have her heart turned upside down. She was made of that paste that seals courage with feeling and discipline with enthusiasm. She didn't have it easy. She fought, and a lot. Thirteen doctors attended her birth. The first days they didn't even name him, but he survived." She also survived the low blows of politics, the machismo of the time, love and heartbreak, and a certain awareness of failure. Her figure is a symbol of a generation that grew up in freedom and believed in education as a social lift. Chacón broke a corner of that glass ceiling that still subjects women as she is the first Minister of Defense of a Spanish government. Politician of progressive convictions forged from her family history and with a strong commitment to equality, she modernized the Armed Forces and was the woman who came closest to leading the PSOE. She anticipated the fracture of Catalonia with Spain and the 15-M movement and tried to renew the old policy of privileges: "When we say left, we make left." The journalist Joana Bonet has dedicated several years to writing this intimate and truthful biography of her friend Carme Chacón. With her he shared trips, conversations and experiences. His is an emotional portrait, but one that reconstructs the lesser-known episodes of Catalan politics. With the time that has elapsed since her death, in 2017, the author reveals to us the most human facet of a great woman who played an important role in the life of this country and who, according to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, "had a small political end for his greatness."