Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiSimon & Schuster, 1992 - 303 pages A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy. |
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... Bazin , a distinguished economist who left his brief appointment as Finance Minister under Baby Doc because he couldn't clean up the mess . Sylvio Claude had gotten demonstrators out into the streets . René Theodore enjoyed success as ...
... Bazin , a distinguished economist who left his brief appointment as Finance Minister under Baby Doc because he couldn't clean up the mess . Sylvio Claude had gotten demonstrators out into the streets . René Theodore enjoyed success as ...
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... Bazin was risking his life , ending a successful career with the World Bank , living well on the East Side of Manhat- tan , in order to try to serve as President of a country that hasn't had a successful presidency in generations . " If ...
... Bazin was risking his life , ending a successful career with the World Bank , living well on the East Side of Manhat- tan , in order to try to serve as President of a country that hasn't had a successful presidency in generations . " If ...
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... Bazin considered himself the candidate with credibility . Sylvio Claude , another of the popular candidates joining the boycott , was a passionate Baptist minister with little administrative experience . About Louis Dejoie 2d , a ...
... Bazin considered himself the candidate with credibility . Sylvio Claude , another of the popular candidates joining the boycott , was a passionate Baptist minister with little administrative experience . About Louis Dejoie 2d , a ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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