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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... slums to get whatever they can find . A Mercedes will pull right up to a shabby concrete house on a main road in a slum , and a young mulatto will get out and start talking to the man sitting in front . That man turns and talks to a ...
... slums to get whatever they can find . A Mercedes will pull right up to a shabby concrete house on a main road in a slum , and a young mulatto will get out and start talking to the man sitting in front . That man turns and talks to a ...
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... slums . He charged me what I later learned was an unthinkable fifteen dollars . Often these days , it occurs to me that he wasn't just ripping me off . He didn't need to take me so far off the main streets in order to charge me one ...
... slums . He charged me what I later learned was an unthinkable fifteen dollars . Often these days , it occurs to me that he wasn't just ripping me off . He didn't need to take me so far off the main streets in order to charge me one ...
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... slums to die . Often they receive treatment for the disease , but not from the Cornell project . Instead , they go to people like Daniel C. Claude , the healer ; Matthieu , the houngan of Kenscoff ; Madame François , a leaf doctor in ...
... slums to die . Often they receive treatment for the disease , but not from the Cornell project . Instead , they go to people like Daniel C. Claude , the healer ; Matthieu , the houngan of Kenscoff ; Madame François , a leaf doctor in ...
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