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When he completed more than forty years as newspaper director, Pedro J. Ramírez looked back by writing these memoirs that are as awaited as necessary due to his privileged role in Spanish political and journalistic life. Following in the footsteps of the purest objective confessional style of Ben Bradlee, one of his models in the profession, through these pages the pulsating history of Spain since the Transition passes with new light: the political events, the protagonists, the lies and the uncovered truths , the ins and outs of 23-F, the unmasking of the GAL, the electoral campaigns of González, Aznar and Zapatero, the games of the parties, the terrible attacks of 11-M and much more. Also included are unpublished conversations with the first five presidents of democracy. And they come to light, for the first time, meetings and conversations with ETA officials in very dramatic circumstances. These pages also show the other side of the relationships at the highest level between journalism and politics. Pedro J. Ramírez, without abandoning the spirit of chronicle typical of a vocational professional, collects in this work of memories, faithfully noted down, without avoiding any matter, however rugged, personal or collective, to fix them with an honest will for the truth . The result is a vital, entertaining and revealing walk that synthesizes the future of the generations that emerged in democracy. The book concludes with the consequences derived from 11-M, the end of this first volume of memoirs.