| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha. Mitos, paradojas y realidades en la Argentina peronista (1946–1955): Una interpretación histórica de sus decisiones político-económicas. (Serie Convergencia. Entre memoria y sociedad.) Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. 2003. Pp. 275.
There are times when an author's pretensions undermine the strength of a work, and this is unfortunately one of them. It is particularly regrettable, since Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha has, through solid labor in the archives, given readers important information on the economic-political strategies of the regime of Juan Perón. However, the first theoretical chapter has little to do with the rest of the book. The important conclusions that the author buries at the end of the book would have made an excellent introduction.	1
Girbal-Blacha has attempted to tie together a series of somewhat discrete studies and present them as a unified whole. Her key device is an introductory chapter based on postmodernist theories and a discussion of memory, myth, and paradoxes. She illustrates them with a discussion of the elimination of the foreign debt in 1952 and the nationalization of public utilities and how what happened was different than the image that exists of these actions. There is unfortunately not much detail, and not much that is said is new.	. . .

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