Historias inesperadas de la historia argentina: Tragedias, misterios y delirios de nuestro pasado (Spanish Edition)

Historias inesperadas de la historia argentina: Tragedias, misterios y delirios de nuestro pasado (Spanish Edition)

by Daniel Balmaceda

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231 pages~3.9 hr readPublished by SUDAMERICANAPublished 2011-04-01

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Perfect for you if...

  • You love history but find traditional textbooks dull and want the weird, messy human stories that rarely make it into school curricula.
  • You're Argentine or have deep ties to Argentina and enjoy discovering forgotten or lesser-known episodes from your country's past.
  • You appreciate narrative nonfiction that reads like fiction because the real events are stranger than anything an author could invent.

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  • You want a chronological, comprehensive overview of Argentine history from independence to present day.
  • You prefer dry, academic analysis over anecdotal storytelling, no matter how compelling the anecdotes are.
  • You're looking for political or economic theory rather than colourful tales about individual historical figures.

About this book

Argentine history contains numerous remarkable figures and situations. Daniel Balmaceda presents unusual stories from the country's past with rigorous and warm prose. Among the accounts included: San Martín was declared dead four years before his actual death; Avellaneda appeared on the Casa Rosada balcony to face a crowd and received an ovation as if he were Perón; Luis Viale achieved a notable moment during one of the most absurd shipwrecks; a president's mother imposed an unwanted bride on her son; a minister apparently died under compromising circumstances; and a businessman changed his will after already being deceased. As the author notes, many of these narratives seem more suited to fiction, yet each one actually occurred in Argentine history.

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