Professor Eugene Akosa Keazor Jr., MSc., PhD, CPH, NBCCH, AASA, is a medical sociologist, a clinical hypnotist, a clinical psychotherapist, and a mental health consultant. Dr. Keazor Jr. is also an adjunct professor at the University of the District of Colombia, Washington, DC, USA. He is a nationally and internationally known teacher, professor, and author on general diseases including the most part sociological perspectives on diabetes and management of epileptic seizure. Besides medical sociological research and publications, Dr. Keazor is very diverse in his knowledge of research and publications. He is also versed in literacy and dramatic fields. He wrote three hit movies for the Nigerian Television Authority entitled On Horror's Head, Horror Accumulates, 1983; The Misfit, 1983; and Marriage in Hell, 1984, before migrating to the United States in 1984. Dr. Keazor is a graduate of University Tutorial College, London, England; City of Liverpool University, England; Howard University, Washington DC, USA; Coppin State University-Baltimore, Maryland, USA; and Howard University, Washington DC, USA.

In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right&—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists&—about the need to break away from the colonial legacies of the past and to escape from the constraints of the international capitalist system. Even though they disagreed about the desired end state, Argentines of all political stripes could agree on the need for economic independence and national sovereignty, which would be brought about through the efforts of a national bourgeoisie. James Brennan and Marcelo Rougier aim to provide a political history of this national bourgeoisie in this book. Deploying an eclectic methodology combining aspects of the &“new institutionalism,&” the &“new economic history,&” Marxist political economy, and deep research in numerous, rarely consulted archives into what they dub the &“new business history,&” the authors offer the first thorough, empirically based history of the national bourgeoisie&’s peak association, the Confederaci&ón General Econ&ómica (CGE), and of the Argentine bourgeoisie&’s relationship with the state. They also investigate the relationship of the bourgeoisie to Per&ón and the Peronist movement by studying the history of one industrial sector, the metalworking industry, and two regional economies&—one primarily industrial, C&órdoba, and another mostly agrarian, Chaco&—with some attention to a third, Tucum&án, a cane-cultivating and sugar-refining region sharing some features of both. While spanning three decades, the book concentrates most on the years of Peronist government, 1946&–55 and 1973&–76.