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Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Early Years
1 The Frustrations of Genteel Poverty 11
2 Scholar's Scholar or Nationalist Scholar? 28
Pt. 2 Seeking the Political Kingdom
3 Prometheus Bound: Williams and the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission 63
4 Letting Down My Bucket 68
5 The Bastard Child of World Democracy 78
6 The Birth of the People's National Movement 87
7 The Movement Launched 99
8 Professor of the "New" Economics 110
9 The Old World versus the New: The Elections Of 1956 116
10 The Glorious Morning Come! 130
11 Williams the Conqueror 144
Pt. 3 Federation and the Struggle for Chaguaramas
12 Prometheus Unbound 159
13 The Recalcitrant Minority and the Federal Elections of 1958 170
14 The "War" for West Indian Independence 185
15 Chaguaramas and the Promised Political Kingdom 200
16 Slavery to Chaguaramas 218
17 The Federal Collapse: "An Absolute Blessing in Disguise" 230
18 One from Ten Leaves Nought 240
Pt. 4 Securing the Political Kingdom
19 The Elections of 1961: Consolidating the Power Base 261
20 The Elections of 1961: Massa Day Done 278
21 The Approach of Independence: From Queen's Hall to Marlborough House 299
22 The "Hindu Question" 317
Pt. 5 The Realities of Independence
23 Cabinet and Party in Independence 327
24 Operation Jobs: Restructuring the Trinidad Economy, 1956-1966 340
25 Heroes in Conflict: James versus Williams 359
26 The Roaring Seventies 381
27 The One-Horse Elections of 1971 405
28 Farewell and Return 417
29 Williams and the Republican Constitution 441
30 Bloody Tuesday and the "Unmixing" of Oil and Sugar 455
31 Williams versus the People'sNational Movement: The Elections of 1976 462
Pt. 6 Williams as Policymaker and Political Manager
32 The Move to the "Left": Industrial Policy in the Post-1970 Era 493
33 Steel versus Brown Sugar 524
34 Williams and Laventille: The Failure of Black Entrepreneurship 536
35 Williams and His Mandarins 543
36 Breaking the "Damn" Circle: The Politics of Education 574
37 The Hero as a "Man of Culture" 594
38 Small Country in a Big World 605
Pt. 7 Williams: The Myth and the Man
39 Liberal Democrat or Sawdust Caesar? 647
40 Man Talking to Man: Williams and the Calypsonian 659
41 Accounting for My Stewardship 686
42 Sleaze and Immorality in Public Affairs 697
43 The Last Days of Eric Williams 715
44 Apostles, Apostates and Ecumenists 738
45 The Myth of Eric Williams 759
46 Williams in the Balance 782
Notes 787
References 815
Index 827
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Susan Hopson
reviewed Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man on March 24, 2011
Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man
The only thing I disliked about the book was that it seemed like it was written as an essay for a standardized test like the GRE or MCAT - lots of 50-cent words and overly descriptive adjectives.
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