PositiveBook PostAlthough his subject is historical, the style is more magazine article than scholarship, fitting as he is excavating the most notorious literary family in recent Spanish history: the Paneros. His shiny pert style contrasts with the grim material ... Well-researched and bittersweet, Shulman’s book lays out the family story and the aftermath of Franco objectively and with finesse ... Shulman does not judge. Thank God. Nothing sours biography like righteousness.