#$ Evita The Real Life of Eva Peron

"Evita" by Marysa Navarro and Nicholas Fraser is by far the best biography of Evita ever written. Marysa Navarro is a professor of history and Nicholas Fraser is a journalist: the combination gives the reader a well researched book written in an accessible yet unique style. "Evita" sets out to destroy the myths surrounding Evita, and despite its brevity the book succeeds in that goal and then some. I have been studying Evita for many years but even I learned things and had misconceptions overturned by this book. I got a sense of Eva's true devotion to the people and her cause (the Foundation) to lift them up out of their disadvantaged, disenfranchised, impoverished existence. Her love of Peron was very evident, and I was nearly moved to tears by the love letter written on the plane ride to Europe. This book, besides providing engrossing, moving biographical details and dispelling myths, places Evita in the context of the times: reading through the opening chapters the reader is transported to an Argentina ruled by the Oligarchy, divided between the European cosmopolitan atmosphere of Buenos Aires, and the dusty poverty-striken pampas. By placing Evita in the context of Argentine life, I understood her actions, set against the political convolutions and class politics of the period. By the ending chapter that details her agonizing death, I actually had to set the book down for a few days. I was so emotionally connected to Evita, inspired by her social crusade, her zeal for change, and her adoration for Peron and the people, that the chronicles of her slow, public death was too much for me. But when I finished the book, I was impressed that such a small book contained so much. This book is an essential.
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