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Title: Eva Peron
Author: Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
Review: The infamous wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron remains one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic female political figures of the twentieth century. Who was Eva Peron really? Given Eva's complexity and contradictory personality, an answer is not easy.
Nevertheless, Ortiz's new book, already a best-seller internationally, is a rounded and deep view of her. Becoming an actress in Buenos Aires (moving there from the provinces), distorting the truth about her illegitimate birth, bleaching her dark hair a golden blond, exercising gimmicks in public speaking-these and other measures Eva used to invent herself repeatedly, each stage of her program of invention offering her increased success in the entertainment then political arena. Packed with telling anecdotes, this biography is particularly
good at reconstructing Eva's "rainbow" trip to Europe in 1947 as emissary of her president husband. Ortiz succeeds in making an already inviting life story even more so, and reader interest should prove high.

This book offers a completely unbiased look at one of the most controversial first ladies of the twentieth century. Eva Peron was both adored and despised and many aspects of her life are open
to wide speculation. The author never tries to assume one opinion, as most biographers do, but carefully presents each possible version of the events in question. Eva is presented as neither saint
or sinner, just a very complex and intense person, and it is completely up to the reader as to how to judge her. This is probably the most well researched and honest biography of Eva Peron available.
Title: Eva Peron : The Myths of a Woman
Author: Julie M. Taylor
Review: Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman is a well written book that explores all the myths that revolve around Eva Peron. The book gives a good background on Eva's life while not focusing too much on biographical information. Taylor takes a different approach on studying Eva that is very diserable. This book is strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in Latin American Studies, Spanish, History or Political Science. Furthermore, anyone who has studied Eva Peron should be advised to read this book to get a different understanding of Eva a Overall, I would highly recommend the book. The unique take Taylor has on Eva Peron is very interesting and well studied.
Title: Evita : An Intimate Portrait of Eva Peron
Author: Tomas De Elia (Editor), Juan Pablo Queiroz (Editor), Tomas De Elia
Review: By the time of her death in 1952 at the age of 33, the charismatic Argentine first lady Eva Peron, Evita to millions of loyal followers, had become a saint-like figure and spiritual leader to her people and the world. This lavish photographic chronicle reveals the private and public life of Peron, from her impoverished childhood to her glorious end. 170 photos.
Title: Evita : Saint or Sinner?
Author: W. A. Harbinson
Review: Incredibly beautiful. Chillingly ruthless. No woman has ever inspired more passion, hatred or mystery. Now, this extraordinary story of her life reveals the complete, uncensored story of the real Evita, along with a behind the scenes look at the Broadway musical Evita and the new movie starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas. Includes eight pages of photos.
Title: Evita : The Real Life of Eva Peron
Author: Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
Review: This is a concise, well-researched and balanced book looking at both the history and the myths of Eva Peron. For people interested in this topic because of either the movie or theater version of Evita, it provides a lot of the historical background material behind the lyrics
written by Tim Rice. Many of the phrases, lines, and snide comments in the lyrics are straight out of what had already been said or written about Eva Peron.

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" 
Title: Evita First Lady : A Biography of Eva Peron
Author: John Barnes
Review: Eva Peron's life is once more an obsession with the scheduled release of the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit Broadway musical, Evita. Now the classic biography of her fascinating life--including 16 pages of photographs--is back in print. Whore, feminist, tyrant, and saint, Evita was the beautiful and legendary woman who rose from poverty to become First lady of Argentina.
 
Title: Evita: Story of Eva Peron
Author: -
Review: Vhs Video Edition VHS Tape
Title: In My Own Words: Evita
Author: Eva Peron
Review: In My Own Words is extracted from a document, "My Message," purportedly written by Evita on her deathbed. The introduction by Joseph A. Page of Georgetown University argues for the authenticity of the document and provides a useful introduction to Evita's life and work. Evita rose from illegitimacy and poverty in rural Argentina to a stellar life as a celebrated beauty and consort of Juan Peron, president of Argentina. Evita as First Lady famously looked after the poor of her countryand was beloved by ordinary people. She died tragically of uterine cancer at the age of 33 and became an icon for Argentina.
Title: Santa Evita
Author: Tomas Eloy Martinez, Helen Lane (Translator)
Review: Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Zedong and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as that of Eva Peron. Elevated to near sainthood in Argentina after her death in 1952, her perfectly preserved corpse was seized by the Argentine Army following the ouster of her husband in 1955. By then, her corpse was the equivalent of a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of Peronists, they were loath to destroy the corpse for fear of the wrath that might follow. Tomas Eloy Martinez has reassembled the story of the corpse of Eve Peron in Santa Evita, and in the process, produced a riveting, rich book that not only tells the tale of one of the more bizarre sagas in the history of South American politics, but that also gets to the heart of the age-old human impulse to create myths and tell stories.
 
Title: Eva Peron : Books, Articles and Other Sources of Study
Author: Gabriela Sonntag
Review: Paperback
 
Title: Eva Peron
Author: Documental Interacti Cmcae 61850
Review: Cdr software Edition CD-ROM
 
Title: Evita by Evita
Author: Eva Peron
Review: This book provides the emotional component that all other books about Evita lack. Yes, all the other books can give you endless detail about Eva's life, but none leave you feeling like you've just met Evita. For an insight into what went on in the heart and mind of this incredible woman, I highly recommend this book!
 
Title: Feminismo: The Womans Movement in Argentina from Its Beginnings to Eva Peron
Author: Marifram Carlson
Review: Paperback & Hardcover
 
Title: La Razon De Mi Vida - The Reason for My Life
Author: Eva Peron
Review: Not a lot of books give you a true insight of a person's life. There's no better way to really getto know a person if you don't see it from their own point of view. Nobody knows Evita better than her. This book is excellent it will make you read it over and over and never get tired of it.
 
Title: Peronism and the Three Perons
Author: Laszlo Horvath (Compiler)
Review: It's the story of Juan Domingo Peron, the 'leader' of Argentina in the 5oth, Evita Peron - his secound wife and the 'heart' of Argentina and Isabelle Peron - his 3rd and last wive. It tells the story of three people that want to become a leader - two were it. But the only Peron who was loved by the people - I mean really loved - died too young to become a leader. Evita, or Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, died at 36. It's a great story of 3 great people.
 
Title: El Regreso De Eva Peron Y Otras Cronicas
Author: V.S. Naipaul
Review: Binding-Compilation
 
Title: Evita : The Legend of Eva Peron, 1919-1952
Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Review: Goes through the musical, with the lyric's but mostly the book is concerned with her life.
 
Title: Evita : The Woman With the Whip
Author: Mary Main
Review: Despite the title, not as vicious as you would think. The first edition of this book was published by Doubleday in 1952, shortly after the death
of Eva Peron. The author used the pseudonym, "Maria Flores." All the newer books about Eva Peron refer to "Woman With The Whip," which is also credited as the source for Tim Rice's musical, "Evita." You either loved Evita or hated her - and the author, an Anglo-Argentine, is in the latter camp. Although touted by the publisher as a "definitive biography," the first edition lacks any documentation to prove the author's arguments. Still, the book is interesting, well-written, and is an excellent source for the "other side of the story" the rumors that the opposition believed about the Perons at the time. Essential reading for Evita fans.
 
Title: Political leaders of Latin America: Che Guevara; Alfredo Stroessner;
Eduardo Frei Montalva; Juscelino Kubitschek; Carlos Lacerda; Eva Peron.
Author: Richard Bourne
Review: Goes through the musical, with the lyric's but mostly the book is concerned with her life.
 
Title: The Return of Eva Peron : With the Killings in Trinidad
Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Review: Excellent, but unsparingly critical view of Argentina, Zaire and
Trinidad. This book consists of three seperate essays, written in the 1970s, which analyze historical events in Argentina, Zaire, and Trinidad. The writing is excellent and full of Naipaul's characteristic incisive insights into culture and history, but one needs to start with some interest and knowledge of the areas covered. The first essay, on Argentina in the early 1970s and the cult of Eva Peron is the best and longest. Reading the essay in Argentina last year, I found many of its brilliant insights on Argentine culture and history to still hold true. The weakness of the essay is its unsparingly critical stance. There is a mocking bitterness and that comes through in Naipual's perspective, which shows no sympathy for those who have to pay the consequences for the tragedies of history. For example, the section on Uruguay ends by noting that at the height of emigration, there was graffiti on the wall saying "last one to leave please turn out the lights." The second essay, on Mobutu Sese Seko's corrupt regime in Zaire is much shorter. It is a short, but in no way sweet. Mobutu deserved no less. The third essay, on a spate of violence in Trinidad, (Naipaul's birthplace) is less important and far less interesting. It chronicles the absurd pretentions and bloody deeds of a wanna-be black nationalist and has little larger significance. I did not find it worth reading.
Title: The Life of Eva Peron
Author: Gordon Theisen
Review: Paperback - 40 pages (due to be released July 1, 2001) 
Title: Eva Peron en el cristal de la escritura: Mabel Pagano
Author: Mirta Corpa Vargas
Review:  Seria y provocativa version literaria del personaje ficcional Eva Peron y su minima trayectoria entre la historia documentada y testimonial. Es esta una importante contribucion sin compromisos, despues de cuya lectura se podra vislumbrar la vigencia del personaje existencial bajo una perspectiva etico-filosofica. Mirta Corpa Vargas entrega un volumen en el que subraya la importancia de la desmitificacion de la existencia de una unica version sobre la identidad del personaje historico.
 
Title: Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth
Author: - VHS Video
Review: If anyone buys this video with the idea of learning the truth about Eva Peron's life, he'll be disappointed. Unfortunately, it appears the producers of "Biography" simply accepted the misinformation that Webber/Rice used for their production. It was interesting to see real life film of scenes that were reproduced in the movie. Otherwise, the video is very disappointing. If one wants to know about the real Evita, look for a good book. Considering how little research seems to have
gone into the production of this biography, I'll be slower in accepting what I see in other A&E Biography segments.

This special went into the myths of this remarkable Fascist leader.And showed her rise to power.Showing photos of her in her sexy prime as a young girl in Buenos Aires to her rise as the myth as we know her. Telling her short life story in a respectable manner. Bravo,Eva! May your life not be forgotten as we approach the new Century...
Title: Intimate Portrait: Eva Peron
Author: - VHS Video
Review:  Best known to Americans as the subject of an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical and a Madonna movie, Eva Peron is the subject of this Lifetime Intimate Portrait. Actress Jill St. John narrates the story of Evita, as she was known, and quotations from Evita's speeches and the autobiographies of her and presidential husband Juan Peron supplement the tale. Biographers, members of Juan Peron's cabinet, and a former boss from her radio soap-opera days also weigh in as the
documentary explores the short but astounding life of the ill-fated heroine of the Argentine poor. She died at only 33, but managed to make the journey from a dusty prairie town to the balcony of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires by age 26. Born illegitimate and impoverished, she never forgot her roots and championed the poor in her South American country by creating thousands of hospitals, schools, and housing units for them. Archival footage of her speeches to cheering throngs and hundreds of still photos give haunting testimony to the life and death of this mesmerizing figure and her lasting impact on Argentina and the world.

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