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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... President . A buyer for the notion counter of a department store became a " gros commerçant " and the pale cowboy who turned out Western stories at two cents a word was buttered up as a " grand écrivain de notre amical voisin nord ...
... President . A buyer for the notion counter of a department store became a " gros commerçant " and the pale cowboy who turned out Western stories at two cents a word was buttered up as a " grand écrivain de notre amical voisin nord ...
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... President - for - Life , plus the royal prerogative of passing the title on to his son . There seemed to be no other plan coming out of the National Palace , but an idea was taking shape , a mysticism of suffering . Jean Weiner ...
... President - for - Life , plus the royal prerogative of passing the title on to his son . There seemed to be no other plan coming out of the National Palace , but an idea was taking shape , a mysticism of suffering . Jean Weiner ...
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... President Reagan himself . Someone should tell him not to do a John Wayne and send in the Marines , but just speak firmly , please , and clearly . No puppet president and no puppetmasters in Haiti . " That could do it ? " Words are ...
... President Reagan himself . Someone should tell him not to do a John Wayne and send in the Marines , but just speak firmly , please , and clearly . No puppet president and no puppetmasters in Haiti . " That could do it ? " Words are ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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