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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... Jean - Claude confers a new dimension to the democratic epoch sung by him . . . . More than a Cornellian hero , the President Jean - Claude Duvalier , whom contemporary history is in the act of welcoming already as a forger of Democracy ...
... Jean - Claude confers a new dimension to the democratic epoch sung by him . . . . More than a Cornellian hero , the President Jean - Claude Duvalier , whom contemporary history is in the act of welcoming already as a forger of Democracy ...
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... Jean - Claude himself , speaking with his spirit of open generosity , assures me . Jean - Claude commanded me- " He half rose from the table and made a little ducking boxing gesture . “ ' Pull no punches , Gerard ! ' He calls me ...
... Jean - Claude himself , speaking with his spirit of open generosity , assures me . Jean - Claude commanded me- " He half rose from the table and made a little ducking boxing gesture . “ ' Pull no punches , Gerard ! ' He calls me ...
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... Jean - Claude- " likes for American investors to eat their breakfast in peace on your lovely terrace of the Grand Hotel Oloffson . " My visitor had not learned at Princeton the new American habit of the protein - packed breakfast . All ...
... Jean - Claude- " likes for American investors to eat their breakfast in peace on your lovely terrace of the Grand Hotel Oloffson . " My visitor had not learned at Princeton the new American habit of the protein - packed breakfast . All ...
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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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