Reviews several books on Argentina, including: `The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism,' by Paul H. Lewis, `Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy,' by William C. Smith, `The Political Economy of Argentina, 1946-1983,' edited by Guido DiTella and Rudiger Dornbusch, `Carlos Pellegrini and the Crisis of the Argentine Elites, 1880-1916,' by Douglas M. Richmond, and `Argentine Unions, the State, and the Rise of Peron, 1930-1945,' by Joel Horowitz.