Juan Peron - The Life of the People's Colonel

Informationen zum Autor Jill Hedges has been Senior Editor for Latin America at Oxford Analytica since 2001. Vorwort Exploring the life of Juan Domingo Perón, Jill Hedges offers a more balanced view ofPerón and his influence on Latin American politics. Zusammenfassung Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina’s “first worker”; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin American visionary; a traitor, responsible for dragging Argentina into a modern, socially just 20th century society or, conversely, destroying for all time a prosperous nation and fomenting class war and unreasonable aspirations among his client base.Outside Argentina, Perón remains overshadowed by his second wife, Evita. The life of this fascinating and unusual man, whose charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate interest, remains somewhat of a mystery to the rest of the world. Perón remains a key figure in Argentine politics, still able to occupy so much of the political spectrum as to constrain the development of viable alternatives. Jill Hedges explores the life and personality of Perón and asks why he remains a political icon despite the ‘negatives’ associated with his extreme personalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1. ChildhoodChapter 2. The ArmyChapter 3. First StepsChapter 4. PototaChapter 5. Turning Point?Chapter 6. In the AscendantChapter 7. San JuanChapter 8. San PerónChapter 9. The First PresidencyChapter 10. The Second Presidency and Into ExileChapter 11. IsabelChapter 12. ExileChapter 13. ReturnChapter 14. Life after Death

Product details

• Authors: Jill Hedges
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780755602711
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-0271-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Political Ideologies, Argentina, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Political leaders & leadership, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Political ideologies and movements