Cartea lui Florin Grecu este o contributie esentiala la istoria Frontului Renasterii Nationale, primul partid unic cu veleitati totalitare din istoria Romaniei, oferind o analiza atenta nu doar a partidului, ci si a monarhiei autoritare instaurate de regele Carol al II-lea. Volumul reprezinta astfel si o introducere la acest prim pas din istoria mai vasta a diferitelor regimuri dictatoriale din Romania secolului XX. Excelent documentata, atenta la detalii si bine incadrata in literatura de specialitate, cartea, in special in aceasta editie revizuita, reuseste sa plaseze Romania anilor 1938-1940 in doua cadre mai ample: cel al Europei interbelice in pragul celui de-Al Doilea Razboi Mondial si cel al tumultuoasei istorii moderne a Romaniei. - Raul Carstocea, Assistant Professor, National University of Ireland Maynooth 

In this detailed volume, Florin Grecu analyses the legal and institutional structure of the royal dictatorship of 1938-1940. His investigation sheds light on how the regime was able to organise itself and impose its ideas on a population unused to direct one-party rule. The period covered in this book is crucial for understanding Romania's entry into the Second World War and its transition from parliamentary democracy to the succession of dictatorial regimes that governed the country between 1938 and 1989. - Roland Clark, Department of History, University of Liverpool