Juan Domingo Peron was a military officer who became Argentina's most popular and most divisive president, a man claimed simultaneously by the far left and the far right, a leader who championed workers while building an authoritarian state, and a figure whose political movement — Peronism — remains the dominant force in Argentine politics more than fifty years after his death. No one can agree on what Peronism actually means, which may be exactly why it has endured.

This episode traces Peron from his military career through his rise to power, the partnership with Evita, his overthrow and exile, the bizarre return, and the political movement that refuses to die.

• Peron's military career and his admiration for Mussolini's corporatist model
• The rise to power, the alliance with labor, and the partnership with Eva that electri ...