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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... the glorious past and inaugurations of glorious projects for the future were nearly continuous . My friend with the empty camera definitely wanted to be invited . For Americans and other foreigners , Haiti offered the kind 34 HERBERT GOLD.
... the glorious past and inaugurations of glorious projects for the future were nearly continuous . My friend with the empty camera definitely wanted to be invited . For Americans and other foreigners , Haiti offered the kind 34 HERBERT GOLD.
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... offered to pay the tax , the " national renewal " road- block tax , and they took the money , but they were not yet done . I was pushed against the wall , my nose scraped , and a semicircle of men , five or six pairs of sunglasses ...
... offered to pay the tax , the " national renewal " road- block tax , and they took the money , but they were not yet done . I was pushed against the wall , my nose scraped , and a semicircle of men , five or six pairs of sunglasses ...
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... offered me , one for Hubert de Ronceray and one for Leslie Manigat , but I didn't put them in the box . At La Boule we saw professional voters with handfuls of ballots . In some places they inked the fingers . Outside at the fountain ...
... offered me , one for Hubert de Ronceray and one for Leslie Manigat , but I didn't put them in the box . At La Boule we saw professional voters with handfuls of ballots . In some places they inked the fingers . Outside at the fountain ...
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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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