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Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Basic Civitas Books
July 2007
On Sale: June 25, 2007
Featuring: Aristite
288 pages
ISBN: 0465070507
EAN: 9780465070503
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected
president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to
leave his country. The twice elected President was
kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American
soldiers and flown, against his will, to the isolated
Central African Republic. Although the American government
has denied ousting Aristide it was clear that the Haitian
people's most recent attempt at self-determination had not
been crushed by Haitian paramilitaries as Washington
claimed.
In An Unbroken Agony, bestselling
author and social justice advocate Randall Robinson
explores the heroic and tragic history of Haiti. He traces
the history of a people forced across the Atlantic in
chains; recounting their spectacularly successful slave
revolt against France and the two hundred years of
reprisals that would follow. The fate of Aristide's
presidency is tied to this people's century-long quest for
self-determination and his removal from power exposes the
apartheid-like forces that frustrate these aspirations even
today. Robinson majestically chronicles the
convulsive history of this island nation--from Columbus's
arrival to the fearlessness of the slave revolutionaries
who defeated the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804,
wresting from France the most valuable colony of any
European power anywhere in the world; from the ideals of
the young republic, to the foreign backed dictators who
corrupted those ideals, culminating in the American led
operation removing from power Haiti's first democratically
elected president and his entire government in 2004.
Robinson captures the pride and courage of the Haitian
people in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. With
his passionate prose, Robinson brings alive the powerful
memory of the Haitian revolution in the souls of ordinary
citizens and shows the boundless desire of all Haitians to
chart their own destiny--free of foreign interference.
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