"The Interior Minister between 1978-82, and again, in 1987-88. Fernández provides a detailed, insider's account of policy-making and political decision-making under the military government. Of particular interest are his analysis of the genesis of the 1980 Constitution, and his spirited, if not entirely persuasive, refutation of charges that Pinochet sought to have the 1988 plebiscite set aside once it was clear that he had lost"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.