The Prize: Haiti's National Palace - 6 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, thebookgrove.
In this second book in his Haiti Sun series, publisher Bernard Diederich examines Haiti's disastrous year of 1957 during which politicians, in their battle for the National Palace, brought their Caribbean country to the brink of collapse.The struggle tore families and friends asunder, reared the ugly head of black-versus-mulatto racism-and opened the way for the Machiavellian tyrant, Dr. Francois Duvalier, to attain power. Left in the wake was a proud and creative people who would suffer post-traumatic stress, from Duvalierist dynastic rule, for the next nearly 30 years.At the heart of this societal tragedy was the prize-Haiti's gleaming white National Palace. However, the elegant structure was more than a symbol of power and easily gotten gain. It was a powerful, insidious force that turned potential leaders into beasts and set them to killing each other and innocent citizens. With an ever-increasing population on a finite land surface, this island republic can no longer afford a diseased, dysfunctional political system. Rather, Haitians must work together to make their palace a museum of past errors.In these pages the author, who witnessed and reported the events of 1957, dramatically sets forth the roots of this challenge. Paperback, Label: iUniverse, iUniverse, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2007-06-12, Studio: iUniverse, Verkaufsrang: 4453980.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Depository US.
In this second book in his Haiti Sun series, publisher Bernard Diederich examines Haiti's disastrous year of 1957 during which politicians, in their battle for the National Palace, brought their Caribbean country to the brink of collapse.The struggle tore families and friends asunder, reared the ugly head of black-versus-mulatto racism-and opened the way for the Machiavellian tyrant, Dr. Francois Duvalier, to attain power. Left in the wake was a proud and creative people who would suffer post-traumatic stress, from Duvalierist dynastic rule, for the next nearly 30 years.At the heart of this societal tragedy was the prize-Haiti's gleaming white National Palace. However, the elegant structure was more than a symbol of power and easily gotten gain. It was a powerful, insidious force that turned potential leaders into beasts and set them to killing each other and innocent citizens. With an ever-increasing population on a finite land surface, this island republic can no longer afford a diseased, dysfunctional political system. Rather, Haitians must work together to make their palace a museum of past errors.In these pages the author, who witnessed and reported the events of 1957, dramatically sets forth the roots of this challenge. Paperback, Label: iUniverse, iUniverse, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2007-06-12, Studio: iUniverse, Verkaufsrang: 4453980.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed an historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro's guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. The geopolitical ripple effects were to be felt for generations-no more so than in Cuba's Caribbean neighbor Haiti. Those caught by surprise included Haiti's enigmatic strongman, Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, who was caught in the middle between Castro's Communist Cuba and the bloody right-wing dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in Haiti's next-door island neighbor, the Dominican Republic.This intriguing book, the third in a series drawn from the pages of the author's English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and from his notebooks, provides a journalist's firsthand look at Papa Doc's reaction-at first easing, then tightening even more brutally-his tyrannical rule. Diederich then traces the ensuing impacts on Haiti's relations with the U.S., other Caribbean nations, the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and the international community.Thus for anyone interested in how the happenings of a single year in the annals of history can exert myriad-and unforeseen-impacts on the human condition, this book is essential reading. Paperback, Label: iUniverse, Inc. iUniverse, Inc. Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2007-10-18, Studio: iUniverse, Inc. Verkaufsrang: 3532596.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, GoodwillSC.
Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed an historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro's guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. The geopolitical ripple effects were to be felt for generations-no more so than in Cuba's Caribbean neighbor Haiti. Those caught by surprise included Haiti's enigmatic strongman, Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, who was caught in the middle between Castro's Communist Cuba and the bloody right-wing dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in Haiti's next-door island neighbor, the Dominican Republic.This intriguing book, the third in a series drawn from the pages of the author's English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and from his notebooks, provides a journalist's firsthand look at Papa Doc's reaction-at first easing, then tightening even more brutally-his tyrannical rule. Diederich then traces the ensuing impacts on Haiti's relations with the U.S., other Caribbean nations, the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and the international community.Thus for anyone interested in how the happenings of a single year in the annals of history can exert myriad-and unforeseen-impacts on the human condition, this book is essential reading. Paperback, Label: iUniverse, Inc. iUniverse, Inc. Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2007-10-18, Studio: iUniverse, Inc. Verkaufsrang: 3532596.

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1959~~Bernard-Diederich, 1959: The Year that Changed Our World (Haiti Sun Series #3).

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The-Prize~~Bernard-Diederich, The Prize: Haiti's National Palace.