Evita - Nicholas Fraser

The story begins in a dusty village
lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital
city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with
the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden
away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was
buried, it would inspire them to revolution.In between Eva Peron became first the actress Eva
Duarte, then the mistress of Colonel Pern, then, in October 1945 after the "shirtless
ones" had swept Peron into office, the
president's wife. In the colorful, tumultuous
setting of postwar Argentina, she wielded a
power--spiritual and practical--that has few
parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. She
was literally idolized by millions but was hated and feared by many as well. She became Evita, the legend.