The Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierThis welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic politics with a penetrating eye and powerful description. Covering the years 1986-89, Wilentz analyzes political developments, centering her interpretations on the activities of a radical priest, interspersed with individual Haitian portraits and personal incidents. The flavor of Haiti is superbly conveyed, as are some unsavory aspects of the role of the press, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. embassy, but Wilentz's narrative is often unclear and her objectivity flawed. For academic and large public libraries.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia . -Library Journal. |
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... side of the altar table , and his body begins to sway . He stops talking , and begins preaching , prophesying . Mother's Day is a thing of the past . He takes the text and with some stunning leaps of logic and rhetorical twists ...
... side of the altar table , and his body begins to sway . He stops talking , and begins preaching , prophesying . Mother's Day is a thing of the past . He takes the text and with some stunning leaps of logic and rhetorical twists ...
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... side of the barricade . With blood dripping into his eye , he tried to peer through the rain and the rocks . Definitely it was a space , it looked big enough to get through , even though there was a ditch on that side . " A gauche ...
... side of the barricade . With blood dripping into his eye , he tried to peer through the rain and the rocks . Definitely it was a space , it looked big enough to get through , even though there was a ditch on that side . " A gauche ...
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... side of the road . We saw the men emerging from around the trailer with their machetes drawn , but they were upon us before we could get away , and , out of the dust from the north , CBS News , in its great black car that looked like ...
... side of the road . We saw the men emerging from around the trailer with their machetes drawn , but they were upon us before we could get away , and , out of the dust from the north , CBS News , in its great black car that looked like ...
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