Evita

Eva Perón remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her husband, President Juan Domingo Perón. He was 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 Evita, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence, and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts of 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 seeks to explore the personality and experiences of Evita. As the first substantive biography of Eva Perón in English, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of Evita.