Eva, Evita: the life and death of Eva Peron

By Paul L. Montgomery and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671826522
• ISBN13: 9780671826529
• Release Date: March 1979
• Publisher: Pocket
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Just a Dictator Thug Tyrant with Good Hair

This is an interesting little book, especially amusing in its attention to events surrounding Eva Peron's dead body and the doctor who preserved it.The Perons were merely opportunist thugs. They and their associates got into power by force, then systematically looted Argentina's wealth. Propaganda forced everyone to pretend to admire them, and force required that everyone obey them. Evita's life, according to this book, generally follows the path portrayed in the Webber/Rice musical, but differed significantly along the way. The musical version integrated apochryphal information, legendary stories, rather than employing hard fact. A major example is "the first man to be of use to Eva Duarte." In the musical it was a popular tango singer named Augustin Migaldi -- as it was so in Evita's accepted local legend, since Migaldi was a relatively prominent performer. The real guy, though, was a second-tier fellow named Armani, who helped Eva settle in the big city then pretty much vanished from history.I wish the book had delved into more detail regarding more of Eva's specific activities -- such as the mechanisms/laws enacted to take over all the British holdings in Argentina -- but it was a good overview, a good foundation for moving on to other explorations of that blonde thug's puny excuse for a life.