Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... Jean- Claude , from 1957 to 1986 - the negligent corruption of General Magloire came to be remembered with nostalgia . During his reign , in 1954 , a cover story in Time depicted him as a Haitian Eisenhower , distinguished by an affable ...
... Jean- Claude , from 1957 to 1986 - the negligent corruption of General Magloire came to be remembered with nostalgia . During his reign , in 1954 , a cover story in Time depicted him as a Haitian Eisenhower , distinguished by an affable ...
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... Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi , guardian of the cemetery , had put so many troublemakers there that people thought peace and ...
... Jean - Claude preferred to play with his toy cars and his motorcycles . His father , who liked to be thought the incarnation of Baron Samedi , guardian of the cemetery , had put so many troublemakers there that people thought peace and ...
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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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