MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Jesse Walker @ Reason.com, for October issue
Book review of Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti, by Johnhenry Gonzalez, Yale University Press, 302 pages, $40
How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it