Stan Goff

Hideous dream : a soldier's memoir of the U.S. invasion of Haiti

Soft Skull Press

New York, 2000

bibliothèque insulaire

   
Haïti
parutions 2000
Hideous dream : a soldier's memoir of the US invasion of Haiti / Stan Goff. - New York : Soft skull press, 2000. - IX-499 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN 1-887128-63-8

DESCRIPTION : U.S. imperialism through the eyes of a member of the U.S. special forces.

After a distinguished career in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counter-terrorist units, Stan Goff refused to turn away from the implications of his own experience. He chose to defy the contradictions between what the foreign policy establishment said and what the US military did. He took sides with Haitian democratic forces over the US supported death squads. Conflict escalated with his men, who were steeped in racist, anti-Haitian propaganda, as well as with commanders who depended on him to « read between the lines » and support a massive campaign of deception aimed at both the Haitian and American people.

Hideous Dream is a revealing look inside US foreign policy, behind the mystique of Special Forces and inside the racist history of American imperial domination of Haiti. It is also a deeply personal account of a man trapped between his emerging political consciousness and the cynical mandates of his life as a professional soldier.

mise-à-jour : 9 juin 2005

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