According to Enrique Krauze, the political history of Mexico has always been, to a great extent, a projection of the biographies of its leaders. Following the thread of his previous books, "La presidencia imperial traces a bold history of Mexico from 1940 until the end of the 20th Century through the penetrating psychological portraits of nine Mexican presidents all belonging to the same party the Revolutionary Institutional Party. In Mexico, where this book has become a necessary reference for thousands of readers, it is considered the « chronicle of national corruption. Krauze explores the strange universe of a political system whose first goal has always been to protect the family's secrets with a double lock.