Evita, First Lady

Evita, First Lady
Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802196527

The story of one of the most fascinating women of all time—Maria Eva Duarte, who rose from poverty to become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world. Eva Perón was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as Eva Perón, her life became a media obsession once again. Evita, as she preferred to style herself, was the beautiful and legendary woman who rose up from poverty to become the hypnotically powerful first lady of Argentina. To millions of poor people, she was a savior; to her enemies, she was a monstrous dictator. In this riveting biography, John Barnes explores the astonishing paradox of this champion of the poor who attacked the rich and, in the process, made herself the wealthiest woman in the world.

Evita, First Lady

Evita, First Lady
Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780802134790

The story of one of the most fascinating women of all time--Maria Eva Duarte, who rose from poverty to become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world.

Evita

Evita
Author: Nicholas Fraser
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393315752

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" (Kirkus Reviews). Photos.

Evita

Evita
Author: Jill Hedges
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 178672023X

Eva Perón remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Perón - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Perón made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33. Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of 'Evita' and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Perón in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of 'Evita'.

Evita's World

Evita's World
Author: Dolane J. Larson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2017-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781502966995

Eva Perón's legacy has left her shrouded in myth. The English-speaking world has known her primarily through the distorted lens of opposition politics--until now. The first volume of the most in-depth biography to date, Evita's World: The Defining Years covers 1919 to 1947. Beginning with Evita's birth as an illegitimate child with no legal rights, it documents her childhood, her career as an actress, her marriage to Juan Perón and his election as President. In fascinating detail, it chronicles how Evita went to Europe in 1947 as Argentina's unofficial "ambassador of peace" and how Europe changed Evita. When she returned, she obtained the right to vote for Argentina's women. Packed with background information about the complex political and social climate from which Peronism sprang, Evita's World: The Defining Years chronicles the rise of an extraordinary political figure during a turbulent time in Argentina and the world.

Santa Evita

Santa Evita
Author: Tomas Eloy Martinez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1997-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679768149

From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Evita

Evita
Author: Tomás de Elia
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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.

In My Own Words

In My Own Words
Author: Eva Perón
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1996
Genre: Argentina
ISBN: 9781851589449

Radio and the Gendered Soundscape

Radio and the Gendered Soundscape
Author: Christine Ehrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 110707956X

This book is a history of women's voices on the radio in two of South America's most important early radio markets. It explores what it meant to hear female voices on the radio and asks readers to consider gender in its aural and sonic dimensions.