Al Burt

This engaging story of Nicaragua's notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua's political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1978-79.

Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr François Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for fourteen years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloire’s rule. His work exposes the evil of Duvalier’s rule and the tale of how Duvalier undid US policy.