• Juan Domingo Perón A basic biography in English Biography By Lindon Ratliff.
• Juan Domingo Perón. Simple basic timeline from NNDB
• Juan Domingo Perón Clear bio by Felipe Pigna in El Historiador
• Peron: "Official" biography from the Buenos Aires Justicialist (Perónist) Party.
• Instituto Nacional Juan Domingo Perón Basic biography produced by the National Institute. Well produced pages with activities, but limited links to wide range of views.....

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a) Ideas & Propaganda   

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• Justicialism Extracts (in English) from Juan Domingo Perón, Perónist Doctrine. Edited by the Perónist Party. (Buenos Aires, 1952). Modern History Sourcebook
• The Twenty Truths of the Peronist Movement (1940s) The Justicialist movement’s core tenets. From Argentine Sourcebook By T Edsell. §
• Juan Domingo Perón Argentine Presidential Messages   Well indexed dating from 1946 onwards. The actual documents are shown as photocopied images. Note: Downloading can be slow! University of Texas.
• Selling a Dictatorship: Propaganda and the Peróns Clive Foss, writing in History Today, March 2000. Foss describes the propaganda effort that the Argentine dictator made to win the gratitude and affection of the entire populace. (This is a "free" mirror of the article which is subscription only and available here.).
•   Hispanidad y oportunismo político/ Hispanidad and political opportunis. Interesting article looking at Perón's attempts firstly to develop a more hispanic culture based on traditional Hispanic Spain, and then its replacement by a more latin focus. In Spanish but translates clearly using google translator. By Raanan Rein
• Perón dirigiéndose a los trabajadores. Hear Peron talk to the workers!!
• Juan Perón speeches Wide selection of speeches made by Perón. (scroll to bottom half of page for Perónist marches). From peronvencealtiempo site
• Working Politics: Juan Domingo Perón’s Creation of Positive Identity Article by looking at the assertion by Perόn that “politics is work,” . This metaphor gave the previously disenfranchised working class a positive identity and at the same time extended opportunities for political participation.
• Perón y el peronismo: bibliographical essay by Mariano Ben Plotkin, Univ Of Berkeley

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b) Domestic Policy    

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Industrial Development

• The Legacy of Juan Perón Brief, but focus is really on the economy. A place to start.
• Remaking the Argentine Economy Google Book full preview providing clear history of Perón's economy. By Felipe A. M. de la. Balze (1995)
• Una Argentina industrial para la postguerra From the 1943 ¡Aquí está! Magazine. Looks at possible plans for Argentina's postwar economy
• The Pulqui story. Brief history of the industrial project that for so many proved the economic "signature" policy of Peron: the attempt to build a domestic jet industry (using exiled German engineers). Heavily subsidised, it eventually failed in tandem with Peron. Good images, drawings and links to YouTube videos of Pulqui I & II!
• Naranjeros, Gauchos and Indians By Hernán Longoni. This detailed article describes the development of an Argentine Flying Wing and other (German engineer led) aviation projects after 1945.
• "Argentina": Forgotten locomotive, the pride and joy of Perón's Argentina. Article on the construction and recent discovery in a Tucumán rail shed of the Perόn prestige project to build a high speed steam loco. For more on the loco rescue  itself go to the Argentina Rescue Fund.
• Nuclear Politics in Cold War Argentina by David Sheinin, Trent University & Beatriz Figallo, CONICET. Academic essay studies the early support for nuclear as part of Perón’s vision and insistence on the importance of nuclear power to Argentine development.
• Institutions and economic stabilisations in Argentina and Spain 1958-59: the political economy of reform in crony capitalist systems. Article by Chris Vellacott, London School of Economics which examines the Perón economic model & its immediate consequences. (This is the html link version of what is otherwise a Word document which does not download easily).
• What the People Want: State Planning and Political Participation in Peronist Argentina, 1946–1955 by Eduardo Elena. This (lengthy academic) 2005 study examines an episode in the social history of state planning by focusing on the 1951 campaign to request popular support for the Second Five-Year Plan.
• Argentina: What Went Wrong By Colin M. MacLachlan. Couple of pages on Google Book Search on the impact of economic policies. (We will need to see how this operates. At the moment it appears to allow wide access to a useful resource.)

Social Policy

• Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962 By Mónica Esti Rein. Links from Google Book search to a valuable resource that focuses on the formal education system in Argentina during the 1940s, the 1950s, and the early 1960s. Go to page 33. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of Perón, Lonardi and Aramburu (the Liberating Revolution), and Frondizi. (1998)
• Por los caminos del indio (Googled English as Perón and the Kolla Indians. Tells the 1946 story of how Perón dealt summarily with members of the Kolla tribe seeking better conditions. Well supported with illustrations.

Unrest and revolt

• (from Armed Conflict Events Data site):
  • Argentine Revolt 1951
  • Military Revolt in Buenos Aires 1955
  • Military Revolt in Argentina 1955
  • Peronist Unrest in Argentina 1956-7
• Escarmientos/Lessons  Apogee & decay of the Terrorist state. Article by Horacio Verbitsky, on military intervention in Argentine politics with events of 1955 as a focus. (English version: Click to  read the googled translation of the article).
• The Peróns: Argentina’s Populist Power Couple " Were the Peróns really so bad? Or have they merely been smeared because the populist Perón was not unfriendly to the Third Reich?" Analysis by Robert K. Logan in The Barnes review.  §
• Historia del peronismo - El regreso definitivo de Peron (the return of Perón)