Entre la admiración y el rencor. Estados Unidos y la prensa española ante el final de la Guerra Fría

These pages offer us a broad vision of the image that spread in Spain over the United States in a relevant historical and social period: the last cycle of the Cold War. They also bring us closer to a few years of the history of Spanish journalism of undoubted interest. The project seems attractive to us because of the importance of the United States, a nation involved in world events, because of the controversial “image of the other” here, and because of the relationship, of admiration and rancor, established between two actors: The Spanish press and the North American country. The study of perceptions "of the other" has become an important field of modern historiography. Likewise, the analysis of public discourse through the press is of great interest; not only because it portrays the day-to-day and the historical evolution in real time, but because in processes of historical change such as the events that concern us, it acts as a dynamic element.