BIBLIOGRAPHY and SOURCES

If you were to read only one book on Eva Perón, I urge you to choose the Alicia Dujovne Ortiz biography. Available in many languages, in hardback and paperback, it is simply the least biased and best written of all listed below. She also provides a discussion of all biographies which have gone before, as well as thoughtful analysis of disputed facts.

Generally, there are several categories of books about the Peróns. Only three books were available in English at the time the Peróns were in power, Eva's ghost-written autobiography and those by Mary Main and Fleur Cowles. All literature in Argentina during the regime was carefully controlled and is uniformly positive. After Perón's overthrow in 1955, a spate of virulently anti-Peronist books and articles was released, as inaccurate and biased as the official party line had been. When Perón returned to power in the 70s, a number of both positive and relatively neutral material was published in Argentina.

There was nothing more in English until Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita was released on record. This resulted in a number of books in English and other languages which ranged from the scurilous to serious scholarly studies. It is doubtful these books would have ever found publishers or readers had the show not been the hit it was. The release of the film brought out another torrent of material, including the very first book (the Ortiz biography mentioned above) which not only was primarily objective but contained major new scholarly work and sources, written by a native Argentine.

To really understand Eva Perón, it is necessary to understand Argentina. Any of the books starred as recommended will be a good start toward comprehension of these people and why they never learned self-government, thus paving the way for dictator after dictator.

As for the material ascribed to Eva herself (including her "autobiography") it consists mainly of excerpts from her public speeches and lectures. What is certain is that she SAID these words. Less certain is whether she wrote them. Several high party members have said she had several speech writers, and even if the contents were what she wanted to say, it was for public consumption--all part of the Peronist propaganda machine. Thus, her books should be read with these facts in mind.

Primary Sources

*Acossano, Benigno.
Eva Perón: su verdadera vida.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Lamas, 1955.

Aizcorbe, Roberto.
Argentina: The Peronist Myth.
Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1975.

Akridge, Sharon Hollenbeck.
"Cinderella From the Pampas."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976.

*Alexander, Robert J.
An Introduction to Argentina.
New York: Praeger, 1969.

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Juan Domingo Perón: A History.
Boulder Colo.: Westview Press, 1979.

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The Perón Era.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.

Alonso Piñeiro, Armando.
La dictadura peronista.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Prestigio, 1955.

Ara Sarria, Pedro.
El caso Eva Perón: apuntes para la historia.
Madrid: CVS Ediciones, 1974.

Argentina en marcha.
Buenos Aires: Subsecretaría de Informaciones de la Presidencia de la Nación, 1950.

Baily, Samuel L.
Labor, Nationalism, and Politics in Argentina.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967.

*Barager, Joseph R., ed.
Why Perón Came to Power: The Background to Peronism in Argentina.
New York: Knopf, 1968.

*Barnes, John.
Evita, First Lady.
London: W. H. Allen, 1978.
New York: Grove Press, 1978.

Benedetti, Antonio.
Perón y Eva: Trayectoria y fin de un régimen.
Mexico City: Editores Pan Americanos Asociados, 1956.

*Blanksten, George I.
Perón’s Argentina.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.

Boizard, Ricardo.
Esa noche de Perón. 3rd ed.
Buenos Aires: Editorial DE-DU S.R.L., 1955.

Borroni, Otelo, and Vacca, Roberto.
Eva Perón.
La historia popular, vol. 9. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1971.

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Vida de Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Galerna, 1970.

Bruce, George.
Eva Perón.
London: Heron Books, 1970.

Bruce, James.
Those Perplexing Argentines.
New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1953.

Brun, Mario Merde.
Eva Perón: Abanderada de la justicia social.
Buenos Aires: Subsecretaría de la Informaciones de la Presidencia de la Nación, 1951.

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2 January-30 April 1950; 21 May-31 August 1952.

CBS-TV.
"Perón and Evita," The Twentieth Century.
Narrated by Walter Cronkite; produced by Burton Benjamin; written by Ray Josephs.
New York: CBS News, 1958.

Cantarella, Adlina.
Guía para análisis analógico de "La razón de mi vida" de Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires: Libreria Perlado, 1954.

Chávez, Fermín.
Perón y el peronismo en la historia contemporánea.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Oriente, 1975.

Ciria, Alberto, et al.
New Perspectives on Modern Argentina.
Bloomington, In.: Latin American Studies Program, Indiana University, 1972.

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Parties and Power in Modern Argentina.
Translated by Carlos A. Astiz with Mary F. McCarthy.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974.

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Buenos Aires: Rodolfo Alonso Editor, 1974.

Corradi, Juan Eugenio.
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Edited by Ronald H. Chilcote and Joel C. Edelstein.
Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, Halsted Press, 1974.

*Cowles, Fleur.
Bloody Precedent.
New York: Random House, 1952.

Crespo Rodas, Alfonso.
Evita:viva o muerta.
Barcelona: Editorial Fontalba, 1980.

Damonte Taborda, Raúl.
¿A dónde va Per6n: de Berlin a Wall Street?
Montevideo: Ediciones de la Resistencia Revolucionaria Argentina, 1955.

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Ayer fué san Perón: 12 años dey Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires: Grupe Editorde, 1966.

*de Elia, Tomás and Juan Pablo Queiroz.
Evita: An Intimate Portrait of Eva Perón.
New York: Rizzoli, 1997.

De La Sota, Julio Ellena.
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Buenos Aires: n.p., n.d.

De Martinez Paiva, Celina R. and María Rosa Pizzuto de Rivero.
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Astral, 1974.

De Virgilio, Francisco.
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Italgraf, 1974.

Declaración de los derechos del trabajadore.
Buenos Aires: n.p., 1947.

*Diego García, Fernando, Alejandro Labado, Enrique Carlos Vásquez, eds.
Evita: Imagenes de una pasion.
Mexico City: Grupo Editorial Zeta S.A., 1997.

Dolkart, Ronald H.
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In Latin America: Power and Poverty, pp. 65-74.
Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.
San Diego, Calif.: San Diego State University Press, 1975.

*Duarte, Erminda.
Mi hermana Evita.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones "Centro de estudios Eva Perón," 1972.

Engle, Lehman.
The Critics.
New York: Macmillan, 1976

*Eva Perón: Album Fotographico.
Buenos Aires: Subsecretaría de Informaciones, 1952.

Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires: Cuadernos de crisis, número 7, 1974.

Eva Perón en el bronce.
Buenos Aires: Subsecretarìa de Informaciones de la Presidencia de la Nación, 1952.

Falcoff, Mark.
"What was Peronismo, 1945-1955?"
In Latin America: Power and Poverty, pp. 65-74.
Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies. San Diego, Calif.: San Diego State University Press, 1975.

Falcoff, Mark, and Ronald H. Dolkart, eds.
Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War, 1930-1943.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975

Fernández, Julio A.
The Political Elite in Argentina.
New York: New York University Press, 1970.

Ferns, Henry S.
Argentina.
London: Ernest Benn, 1969.

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The Argentine Republic, 1516-1971.
Newton Abbot, England: David & Chartes, 1973.

Ferrer, Aldo.
The Argentine Economy.
Translated by Marjory M. Urquidi.
Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 1967.

Fillol, Tomás Roberto.
Social Factors in Economic Development: The Argentine Case.
Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1961.

Fitzgibbon, Russell H.
Argentina: A Chronology and Fact Book, 1516-1973.
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana, 1974.

Foster, Derek H. N.
The Argentines, How They Live and Work.
New York: Praeger, 1972.

Franco, Alberto.
La mística social de Eva Perón.
Buenos Aires: Subsecretaría de Informaciones, 1954.

*Fraser, Nicholas, and Marysa Navarro.
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1980.

Fundacion Eva Peron Escuela de Enformas,
n.p., n.d.

Gambini, Hugo.
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Brujula, 1969.

García, Enrique Eduardo.
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Buenos Aires: Miranda, n.d.

*Ghioldi, Américo.
De la tirania a la democracia social.
Buenos Aires Ediciones gure, 1956.

*________.
El mito de Eva Duarte.
Montevideo: Compania impressora, 1952.

Goldwert, Marvin.
Democracy, Militarism and Nationalism in Argentina, 1930-1966: An Interpretation.
Latin American Monographs.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1972.

Gould, Lois.
La Presidenta.
New York: Simon & Schuster, Linden Press, 1981.

Greenup, Leonard, and Greenup, Ruth Robinson.
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Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.

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Harbinson, W. A.
Evita! A Legend for the Seventies. Designed by Mike Ricketts.
London: W. H. Allen, Star Books, 1977.

Harbinson, W. A.
Evita: Saint or Sinner?
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Hodges, Donald C.
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Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

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"Perón and After, Part II (Conclusion)."
Hispanic American Historical Review, 39 (May 1959) :212-223.

Hollander, Nancy Caro.
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In Women in Latin America pp. 101-117.
Riverside, Calif.: Latin American Perspectives, 1979.

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Edited by Ann Pescatello. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.

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"Women in the Political Economy of Argentina." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974.

*Imaz, José Luis de.
Los que mandan [Those Who Rule].
Translated and edited by Carlos A. Astiz.
New York: State University of New York Press, 1970.

Jaumandreu, Paco.
Evita fuera del balcón.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Libro Abierto, 1981.

Jolly, Julia A. "Eva Perón: Adventuress or Militant?"
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San Diego, Calif.: San Diego State University Press, 1975.

*Josephs, Ray.
Argentine Diary: The Inside Story of the Coming of Fascism.
New York: Random House, 1944.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane.
Leader and Vanguard in Mass Society: A Study of Peronist Argentina.
Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1971.

Lack, John.
Eva Perón. n.p., 1958.

Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee.
Sparks Fly Upward.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1967.
First performed as The Diamond Orchid, New York City, 1965.

Levene, Ricardo.
A History of Argentina.
Translated and edited by William S. Robertson.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
Reprint. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.

Libro negro de la segunda tiranía.
Buenos Aires: La nación Argentine, Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones, 1958.

*Llorca, Carmen.
Llamadme Evita: Un destino único de mujer.
Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1980

*Lloyd Webber, Andrew, and Rice, Tim.
Evita: The Legend of Eva Perón, 1919-1952.
London: Elm Tree Books, 1978.

Lombille, Román J.
Eva, la predestinada: alucinante historia de Exitos y frustraciones.
Buenos Alses: Ediciones gure, 1955.

Luna, Félix.
El cuarenta y cinco: Crónica de un año decisivo.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Jorge Alvarez, 1969.

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