A valuable teaching resource. This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations and research on the political movement that has dominated Argentine history in the last half-century. James Brennan has done a very effective job in grouping these articles around three central problematics: the intellectual debate surrounding peronismo as a social and political phenomenon; peronismo and the making of the Argentine ... Read moresociety since the early 1940s; and, finally, peronismo's recent transformations under the neoliberal agenda of menemismo.
Diego Armus, Kean University These eight essays connect the Peronism of yesterday and the Peronsim of today, highlighting what has changed a lot and what has changed a little in Argentina in the second half of the twentieth century.
Herbert Braun, University of Virginia This volume is the best and most complete discussion in any language of the evolution of Peronism, a little-known and yet very important ideology and political movement. The significance of Peronism transcends the case of Argentina, a country it reshaped two times in this century, for its incarnations represent possible models for some of the new democracies in different parts of the world.
Carlos H. Waisman, University of California, San Diego Show Less