Song of Haiti: The Lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon

Unabridged
Author: Barry Paris
Narrator: Barry Paris
Genres: History, Biographies, Americas, Lectures, History, Biography
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Date: November 2008
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Ratings:
Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

Overview

Over the course of three decades, Barry Paris has won wide acclaim for his cultural and investigative reporting. In the past, he has served as a music critic and investigative reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a feature editor for The Miami Herald. He is a graduate of Columbia University and of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. in Munich, Germany. Paris is fluent in a number of languages, and has translated plays of the Russian dramatist Anton Chekov.The title of his lecture is Song of Haiti: The Lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon.

Reviews (1)

I wouldn't...

Written by Anonymous from Midlothian, VA on July 3rd, 2007

  • Book Rating: 1/5

I wouldn't order this again. It is a college lecture, which should be fine, but Paris just rattles on and on without much consideration of his audience. Pass on this one.