An Evening with Michael Deibert in conversation with Alexandra Martinez
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About The Book
A sweeping history of Haiti’s first century that examines its complex internal political dynamics and its tangled relations with the United States.
Michael Deibert’s With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other is a sweeping history of Haiti’s first century, examining its complex internal political dynamics, the vital role the nation played in liberation movements throughout the Americas, and its tangled relations with the United States. Weaving the diverse stories of the region into a vibrant tapestry of shared struggle under the shadow of both colonial European powers and an ever-more-assertive United States, Deibert uses decades of experience in the region to bring such historical figures as Frederick Douglass, Simón Bolívar, Anténor Firmin, and Ramón Emeterio Betances to life in new and vivid ways. In doing so, he also examines the shared histories of Haiti and the United States, the hemisphere’s two oldest independent republics, and the values each espoused and claimed to live by, sometimes coalescing and sometimes clashing. A must-read for anyone interested in Latin American and Caribbean history as well as the history of the antebellum and postbellum United States, With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other restores Haiti to its rightful place as a nation at the forefront of the struggle for human freedom during the era and presents, in dramatic and compelling form, the glories and costs that came from being at the forefront of that battle.
About The Author
MICHAEL DEIBERT first visited Haiti in 1997 and has been working as a journalist, author, and analyst there for three decades. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Foreign Policy, Le Monde diplomatique, and Folha de São Paulo, among other media, and he has been a featured commentator on international affairs for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, France 24, and National Public Radio as well as in the pages of The New York Times, The Economist, El País, Der Spiegel, and other publications. He received a fellowship from the International Peace Research Association and was selected as a finalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, sponsored by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in recognition of his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
About The Moderator
Alexandra Martinez is a Cuban-American writer and filmmaker based in Miami. She is the senior news reporter at Prism where she covers immigration and labor, among other topics. She also writes about arts and culture for outlets including Burnaway, Hyperallergic and The Art Newspaper.
Her reporting has been recognized by the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards and she is the recipient of a 2024 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Martinez holds a B.A. in film from Columbia University.
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