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...EVITA Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber...
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
Once a union became solidly Peronist, its workers could look forward to huge wage increases. Evita also controlled the 5 million-member General Confederation of Labor, whose figurehead leader had been a hall porter at her old apartment building...
Today Peronism is brutally suppressed by Argentina's military government. Yet the mystique of Juan and Eva continues. She, especially, has achieved an international moment of posthumous pop stardom. Evita, a musical based on her life, is now a hit in London, and will probably be brought to Broadway...