Perón and the Enigmas of ArgentinaInevitably, there is much that is enigmatic and generally misunderstood in the tale of Perón, his country, and his civilization. To provide a kind of view from Olympus and a framework for the narrative history that follows, Part I of this book contains brief sketches of what are seen as the enigmas of Argentina and of Perón. The enigmas are, of course, rooted in the past, and the story, intensely human and historical, thus becomes an adventure in time and its interactions in which the past is summoned to elucidate the present. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
THE ENIGMAS | 7 |
The Land | 17 |
Argentina in the Years of Triumph 18801930 | 45 |
The Conservative Restoration 19301943 | 71 |
THE PERONATO 19431955 | 90 |
The Caribbean Exile 19551960 | 287 |
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