Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

by Fraser, Nicholas; Navarro, Marysa

• ISBN13: 9780393315752
• ISBN10: 0393315754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction to the 1996 edition	xiii
The House of Dona Juana	1	(11)
Buenos Aires	12	(16)
The Colonel and the Actress	28	(21)
17 October, 1945	49	(20)
Wife of the President	69	(19)
Europe	88	(14)
The New Argentina	102	(12)
The Gift of Giving	114	(20)
The Bridge of Love	134	(14)
Death and its Public	148	(20)
The Body and the Myth	168	(25)
Epilogue	193	(6)
Notes	199	(14)
Bibliography	213	(6)
Index	219