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

Version: Unabridged
Author: Barry Paris
Narrator: Barry Paris
Genres: History, Biographies, Americas, Lectures, History, Biography
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Published In: N/A
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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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 (2)

Rambling, Self Indulgent

Written by Anonymous on December 11th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 1/5

The lecturer speaks in loops about prior experiences in Haiti. Somewhere in this tape, there is probably interesting information about the country. Unfortunately, he spends time recounting who he spoke with, how they were related, what the proper way of speaking would be, correcting his own use of language, and laughing at his own jokes. Not worth renting.

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.