Fraser, Nicholas & Marysa Navarro, — Eva Peron.

NY, Norton, (1980). 5th prntg. G PB some edge wear. Her story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas where a girl born out of wedlockstumbles her way to the. capital by the time she is 15 and ends with an embalmed corpse of Eva Peronhidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentine knew where it was buried it would inspire them to revolution. First an actress then the President's wife after the "shirtless ones "had swept him into officfe. In postwar Argentine she wielded a power spiritual and practical that had few prallels outside of herediary monarchy. She became Evita the legend literally idolized by millions, but hated and feared by many as well. a work of great politial sophistication, factual and nuanced and absorbing. Engrossing narrative style.