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 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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... Jean - Claude Duvalier , pointing out how His Youthful Excellency could do things so much better with the help of the classically educated , internationally popu- lar philosopher from Jacmel . Aubie knew everyone . As the years went by ...
... Jean - Claude Duvalier , pointing out how His Youthful Excellency could do things so much better with the help of the classically educated , internationally popu- lar philosopher from Jacmel . Aubie knew everyone . As the years went by ...
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... Duvalier bankers , and prosecution of the Du- valier torturers . The money would help . The photographs of Jean- Claude Duvalier , grinning on a French ski slope , did not help . The satisfactions of justice would help to bring pride in ...
... Duvalier bankers , and prosecution of the Du- valier torturers . The money would help . The photographs of Jean- Claude Duvalier , grinning on a French ski slope , did not help . The satisfactions of justice would help to bring pride in ...
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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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