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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... Duvalier Interna- tional Airport said : " My Father made the political revolution . I , I will make the economic revolution . " -Jean - Claude Duvalier Ninth President - for - Life One of the lesser riddles was to try to find who filled ...
... Duvalier Interna- tional Airport said : " My Father made the political revolution . I , I will make the economic revolution . " -Jean - Claude Duvalier Ninth President - for - Life One of the lesser riddles was to try to find who filled ...
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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 Duvalier would make a sortie into the countryside for a few moments of personal frowning at the problems of water , health , education , and starvation . He threw coins at the crowds and they shouted , " Vive Bébé , Fils ...
... Jean - Claude Duvalier would make a sortie into the countryside for a few moments of personal frowning at the problems of water , health , education , and starvation . He threw coins at the crowds and they shouted , " Vive Bébé , Fils ...
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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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