Edhasa – Libro Raúl Alfonsín – el Planisferio Invertido

Cuando cumple treinta y un anos; Raul Alfonsin es un hombre casado y con seis hijos. Acaba de ser electo diputado provincial; sabe que su vida sera mayormente una vida politica. Es el ano 1958. En las decadas siguientes adquirira cada vez mayor relevancia. Primero dentro del radicalismo; luego en todo el pais. Diputado nacional en 1962; referente de los derechos humanos durante de la dictadura; Presidente en el regreso a la democracia en 1983; impulsor del llamado ´Pacto de Olivos´ con Carlos Menem y factotum de la reforma constitucional de 1994. Tras la crisis de 2001; sera un actor decisivo en la salida de la Convertibilidad. En este excepcional ensayo historico; Pablo Gerchunoff analiza y piensa la vida de Raul Alfonsin sobre los ultimos setenta anos de la Argentina. Gracias a una investigacion exhaustiva que va desde su nacimiento en Chascomus hasta su muerte; en buena medida muestra a un Alfonsin casi desconocido. Pero mas importante aun es lo que revela sobre las transformaciones de la economia y la sociedad: las decisiones que cambiaron nuestra historia; las negociaciones in extremis; el Juicio a las Juntas y la amenaza militar durante la decada del ochenta; el Plan Austral y la hiperinflacion; la intimidad del ejercicio del poder; lo que podria haber sido y no fue; los errores de calculo; la evolucion del radicalismo. Este libro es un lucido y conmovedor fresco politico; lo recorremos guiados por una personalidad impar: Raul Alfonsin; un lider etico acaso irrepetible.

EN: On his thirty-first birthday, Raul Alfonsin is a married man with six children. He has just been elected provincial deputy; he knows that his life will be mostly a political life. It is 1958. In the following decades he will acquire more and more relevance. First within the radicalism; then in the whole country. National deputy in 1962; referent of human rights during the dictatorship; President in the return to democracy in 1983; promoter of the so-called ‘Pacto de Olivos’ with Carlos Menem and factotum of the constitutional reform of 1994. After the crisis of 2001; he will be a decisive actor in the exit of the Convertibility. In this exceptional historical essay; Pablo Gerchunoff analyzes and thinks about Raul Alfonsin’s life during the last seventy years of Argentina. Thanks to an exhaustive research that goes from his birth in Chascomus to his death; to a great extent it shows an almost unknown Alfonsin. But even more important is what it reveals about the transformations of the economy and society: the decisions that changed our history; the negotiations in extremis; the Trial of the Juntas and the military threat during the eighties; the Austral Plan and hyperinflation; the intimacy of the exercise of power; what could have been and was not; the miscalculations; the evolution of radicalism. This book is a lucid and moving political fresco; we go through it guided by an odd personality: Raul Alfonsin; a perhaps unrepeatable ethical leader.