“Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you.” Few political figures have been both hailed as a saint and immortalised through an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. The mythology of Evita…
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- Part 5
- Published date
- 2024-09-25
- Year span
- 1952 – 1955
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