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

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.