Haiti
Elizabeth Abbott. Touchstone Books, $12.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-671-68620-8
Interviews with former officials, intellectuals, voudou priests and others form the basis for this shocking study of the republic from Francois Duvalier's election in 1957 to the 1988 installation of President Leslie Manigat. ``The most intimate and revealing examination to date of the Duvalier years . . . a nightmarish chronicle of corruption, greed and relentless slaughter,'' said PW. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
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