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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... smiling person was the Chief of Staff of the Armée d'Haiti . When I complimented him on his Eisenhower jacket , that short military uniform made popular by an American general and President well - known in his time , the Haitian Chief ...
... smiling person was the Chief of Staff of the Armée d'Haiti . When I complimented him on his Eisenhower jacket , that short military uniform made popular by an American general and President well - known in his time , the Haitian Chief ...
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... smiling , happy , fully perfumed . Her nature was generous , her dresses flow- ered , her joy complete . When I ... smiled , smiled , and did his job . Mornings he would dress in his elegant colonial whites , slick down his hair ...
... smiling , happy , fully perfumed . Her nature was generous , her dresses flow- ered , her joy complete . When I ... smiled , smiled , and did his job . Mornings he would dress in his elegant colonial whites , slick down his hair ...
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... smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach with a toy bucket and shovel for digging in the sand . The smiling German had come back to the fun , but perhaps for the sake of safe nonsex , he spent his days and nights in unsafe drink ...
... smiling , and dressed like a boy at the beach with a toy bucket and shovel for digging in the sand . The smiling German had come back to the fun , but perhaps for the sake of safe nonsex , he spent his days and nights in unsafe drink ...
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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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