TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klarreich,Kathie
TI  - Madame Dread: a tale of love, vodou and civil strife in Haiti 
SN  - 1560257806
AV  - 110 PN 4874 K63m  2005
U1  - 070.92B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nation Books
KW  - Klarreich, Kathie.
KW  - CEH
KW  - Colección Estudios Haitianos
KW  - Journalists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1986-
N1  - A new way of life -- Madame Dread -- Vodou Jew -- Reporting live -- CIA -- Motherhood -- Living in darkness -- Trekking along -- Field producer -- Full circle
N2  - Kathie Klarreich, a white Jewish girl from the West Coast, arrived in Haiti as a naèive twenty-something in the late 1980s. There she worked for a fair trade organization. Weeks became months, and months became years, as Klarreich, despite the spiraling political violence, became enthralled by the island, its lifestyle and traditions, to the extent that she started to grow dreads, attend Voodoo masses and started to file reports for the Christian Science Monitor and its attendant radio station. Klarreich saw civil violence, mass slaughter, coups, and U.S. intervention all up-close, and on a daily basis as a reporter. Often risking life and limb, accused of being a CIA agent by her enemies, she lost a man she loved due to an assassin's bullet-- but she established credentials, contacts and developed an unsparing eye that led major news organizations such as The New York Times, ABC, CNN, Fresh Air and Time magazine to regard her as nonpareil throughout the turbulent decade
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