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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

by Nicholas Fraser
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  • $15.95
Edition:
(4th)
ISBN13:
9780393315752
ISBN:
0393315754
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Type:
Paperback

About The Book

The life that inspired Evita, the major motion picture starring Madonna.The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a... Read more

girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire them to revolution.In between Eva Peron became first the actress Eva Duarte, then the mistress of Colonel Perón, then, in October 1945 after the "shirtless ones" had swept Peron into office, the president's wife. In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, she wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. She was literally idolized by millions but was hated and feared by many as well. She became Evita, the legend.

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Spring 2012

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