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Author:

Hadden, Gerry.

Title:

Never the hope itself : love and ghosts in Latin America and Haiti / Gerry Hadden.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

343 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Hadden, Gerry.
National Public Radio (U.S.)
Journalists--Latin America--Biography.
Journalists--Haiti--Biography.
Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography.
Reporters and reporting--Latin America.
Latin America--Description and travel.
Latin America--Social conditions--21st century.
Haiti--Description and travel.
Haiti--Social conditions--21st century.

Summary:

A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR's correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation's first democratic transition of power, he witnesses both hope and uncertainty. But after 9/11, he finds himself documenting overlooked yet extraordinary events in a forgotten political landscape. As he reports on Colombia's drug wars, Guatemala's deleterious emigration, and Haiti's bloody rebellion, Hadden must also make a home for himself in Mexico City, coming to terms with its ghosts and chasing down the love of his life, in a riveting narrative that reveals the human heart at the center of international affairs.--Cover, p. [4].

ISBN:

0062020072 (pbk.)
9780062020079 (pbk.)

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)