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The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier

Amy Wilentz

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Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti's President-for-Life, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it's over—Wilentz's Haiti haunts the imagination.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781476706818
Genre
History
Topics
Haitian politics and historyDuvalier dictatorship and its aftermathPolitical upheaval and voodoo culture

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