Eva Peron

W. W. Norton, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 1981 W. W. Norton 192 pages, plus Notes, Bibliography and Index. Very Good, in a VG DJ. just a touch of shelef/edge wear to black cloth spine with silver titles over red paper boards - corners sharp. Minor shelf/edge wear to unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1934, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. Handsome vintage copy. LOC SSE-02