The Return of Eva Peron
Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780140052596
Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780140052596
Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Michael X in Trinidad, Peronism in Argentina, the cult of Kingship in Mobutu's Zaire - the author brings his novelist's questioning to bear upon the "half-made" societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption.
Author : Jill Hedges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178672023X
Eva Perón remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Perón - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Perón made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33. Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of 'Evita' and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Perón in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of 'Evita'.
Author : John Barnes
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802196527
The story of one of the most fascinating women of all time—Maria Eva Duarte, who rose from poverty to become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world. Eva Perón was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as Eva Perón, her life became a media obsession once again. Evita, as she preferred to style herself, was the beautiful and legendary woman who rose up from poverty to become the hypnotically powerful first lady of Argentina. To millions of poor people, she was a savior; to her enemies, she was a monstrous dictator. In this riveting biography, John Barnes explores the astonishing paradox of this champion of the poor who attacked the rich and, in the process, made herself the wealthiest woman in the world.
Author : Nicholas Fraser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393315752
In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, nuanced, and absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews). Photos.
Author : Paul Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1982-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671453640
Author : Kremena Spengler
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736864152
Provides an introduction to the life and biography of Eva Peron, a popular entertainer and first lady in Argentina.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
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Author : Robert D. Crassweller
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393305432
The author succeeds admirably in defining and describing the complex phenomenon known as Peronism, as well as the distinctive ethos from which it sprang. He also provides a concise history of Argentina, a biography of Juan Peron (and his comparably mythic wife Evita) and in a postscript reviews events in Argentina since Peron's death in 1974....Crassweller brings Peron into clear focus.
Author : Tomas Eloy Martinez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1997-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679768149
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez