Ed T (09 Dec 14 - 08:22 PM), I read a biography long ago when I studied the musical/opera "Evita"; I think it was titled "The Woman Behind the Myth". If you disagree with my list of "facts as I understand them", read my posts as if prefixed "According to a widespread, but not necessarily accurate, perception".

The film emphasizes the "whorish" aspects. Madonna herself claims to be political, but the ideas she proclaimed in interviews were very fuzzy. She is often seen as a reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe, who actually slept with powerful and important men but was not political at all, as far as we know. The real Eva Peron, in contrast, was clever and had an accurate judgment of people's dreams and wishes. Argentina's stability was and is a different matter ...

Voters nowadays are best advised not to follow any propagandist who claims to have simple solutions. Therefore such propagandists should not be glorified in retrospect.