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Haiti: The Duvaliers And Their Legacy

Elizabeth Abbott
Reviewed by Linda S. Robinson
Winter 1988/89
Haiti: The Duvaliers And Their Legacy
Elizabeth Abbott
McGraw-Hill
1988
408 pp.
$19.95
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Trained as a historian, working currently as a journalist, married to a Haitian hotelier and related by marriage to Haitian strongman General Henri Namphy, the author has used her background and connections to produce a gripping but not always reliable account of the Duvalier years and their grim legacy.

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