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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... Doc Duvalier ruled with a mad hand , and after him " Baby " Doc , which is the land of voodoo and glorious ... Doc's Haiti of the 1960s , much of it was straight reportage . Not many foreigners know this country well . Although ...
... Doc Duvalier ruled with a mad hand , and after him " Baby " Doc , which is the land of voodoo and glorious ... Doc's Haiti of the 1960s , much of it was straight reportage . Not many foreigners know this country well . Although ...
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... Doc sometimes committed crimes justified only by the rationality of puns . A house was attacked by the tonton macoutes ... Doc's version of brownshirts and the Waffen SS , except that their usual uniform was blue jeans , T - shirts ...
... Doc sometimes committed crimes justified only by the rationality of puns . A house was attacked by the tonton macoutes ... Doc's version of brownshirts and the Waffen SS , except that their usual uniform was blue jeans , T - shirts ...
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... Doc Who Art in the National Palace , " as the improved Lord's Prayer read . The simple country doctor wished to ... Doc's irony . It began : " Comme Chef Con- stitutionel de la République d'Haiti . . . " President Kennedy's objec ...
... Doc Who Art in the National Palace , " as the improved Lord's Prayer read . The simple country doctor wished to ... Doc's irony . It began : " Comme Chef Con- stitutionel de la République d'Haiti . . . " President Kennedy's objec ...
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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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