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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... foreign office contact - call him Albert - was exas- perated by my choice in a tennis partner , the " mulatto " Fortuné Bogat . As a man who entertained the president of General Motors on visits to Haiti , Le Sénégalais was seen as ...
... foreign office contact - call him Albert - was exas- perated by my choice in a tennis partner , the " mulatto " Fortuné Bogat . As a man who entertained the president of General Motors on visits to Haiti , Le Sénégalais was seen as ...
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... foreign aid . American help had been suspended under President Kennedy partly because Papa Doc insisted on controlling the payrolls . He didn't fret now about the uncompleted projects , irrigation , soil conservation , reforestation ...
... foreign aid . American help had been suspended under President Kennedy partly because Papa Doc insisted on controlling the payrolls . He didn't fret now about the uncompleted projects , irrigation , soil conservation , reforestation ...
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... foreign investors and managers , got the leavings . Out of foreign aid and cheap labor , the Family had created several hundred millionaires . Digging a foundation hole for a house for a police chief , a man worked with sculpted muscles ...
... foreign investors and managers , got the leavings . Out of foreign aid and cheap labor , the Family had created several hundred millionaires . Digging a foundation hole for a house for a police chief , a man worked with sculpted muscles ...
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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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