Word: barneses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld · Evita: First Lady, John Barnes · Ezra Pound in Italy, edited by Gianfranco Ivancich, photographs by Vittorugo Contino · First Person Rural, Noel Perrin · People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin · The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ First Person Rural, Noel Perrin ∙ Inventing America, Garry Wills ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad ∙ Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ First Person Rural, Noel Perrin ∙ Inventing America, Garry Wills ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Her Social Aid Foundation, Barnes documents, was gorged with millions of unrecorded dollars, "gifts" from industrialists and chambermaids. She humiliated the aristocratic families that had snubbed her on the way up and bought the affection of the crowd with widely publicized and much needed charities.
Biographer Barnes, a journalist who covered Latin America before becoming a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the London Sunday Times, treats his subject both forthrightly and fairly. In fact, he is not entirely unsympathetic. The sources of Eva's greeds, hates and demagogic passions are too real to dismiss...