Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina

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the Enigmas of Argentina
Robert D. Crassweller
"Multileveled and highly readable .The author succeeds admirably in defining and describing the complex phenomenon known as Peronism, as well as the distinctive ethos from which it sprang. He also provides a concise history of Argentina, a biography of Juan Perón (and his comparably mythic wife Evita) and in a postscript reviews events in
Argentina since Perón's death in 1974____Crassweller brings Perón into
clear focus." —Publishers Weekly
"An exacting and elegant assessment of what Perón meant to his country and vice versa." —Booklist
"This is biography-as-history in the best sense of the term____Mr.
Crassweller gives us what is perhaps the best single-volume history of 20th-century Argentina: sensitive, urbane, deeply comprehending, written in a style worthy of the most important of historical themes."
—Mark Falcoff, New York Times Book Review
Robert D. Crassweller is a graduate of Carleton College ai\d Harvard Law... Tovább

Fülszöveg

the Enigmas of Argentina
Robert D. Crassweller
"Multileveled and highly readable .The author succeeds admirably in defining and describing the complex phenomenon known as Peronism, as well as the distinctive ethos from which it sprang. He also provides a concise history of Argentina, a biography of Juan Perón (and his comparably mythic wife Evita) and in a postscript reviews events in
Argentina since Perón's death in 1974____Crassweller brings Perón into
clear focus." —Publishers Weekly
"An exacting and elegant assessment of what Perón meant to his country and vice versa." —Booklist
"This is biography-as-history in the best sense of the term____Mr.
Crassweller gives us what is perhaps the best single-volume history of 20th-century Argentina: sensitive, urbane, deeply comprehending, written in a style worthy of the most important of historical themes."
—Mark Falcoff, New York Times Book Review
Robert D. Crassweller is a graduate of Carleton College ai\d Harvard Law School. He has worked in private law practice, in business ventures in the Caribbean, and on corporate legal staffs, including six years as General Counsel-Latin America for ITT. He has also served as visiting professor of Latin American affairs at various universities. He is now an author specializing in Latin American subjects. Mr. Crassweller lives in Stamford, Connecticut.
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ISBN 0-393-30545-0
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