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“A tour de force. Daut brings King Henry Christophe vividly back to life in this deeply researched and rivetingly told biography. In a work overflowing with new archival discoveries and insights, she carries us expertly through a moment of revolutionary political thought and cultural transformation that reshaped our world and its possibilities. Everyone should know this history.”
–Laurent DuBois
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“In The First and Last King of Haiti, Yale scholar Marlene L. Daut explores the life of Henry Christophe, a complex figure in Haitian history. Born to an enslaved mother in Grenada, Christophe would go on to be a key leader in Haiti’s revolution for independence. Eventually, he would go on to declare himself King of Haiti, only to die by his own hand nine years later.” — Kendra Winchester, Book Riot
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“I have heard of the name Henry Christophe but I certainly did not know there was a king of Haiti. The description reads like a tragedy play. Christophe is a contemporary and compatriot of Toussaint L’Overture during the Haitian revolution, but later fights alongside Napolean, and then takes his own life. I must know more about Christophe’s story!!!” — Raymond Williams, PhD, Ballasts for the Mind
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“Daut's deeply researched and nuanced portrayal is exactly the kind of underlying IP that a good screenwriter needs to craft a compelling script. It’s also a dream part for an actor.” — Andy Lewis
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The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still controversial enigma that he was.
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“Marlene L. Daut’s The First and Last King of Haiti (Knopf) is an impressively researched biography of Henry Christophe, a former lieutenant of Toussaint Louverture’s who became one of the leaders of post-revolutionary Haiti.”
- SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH
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Marlene Daut offers an essential biography that explores the tumultuous life of one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Americas in “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.”
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When asked by Elle magazine what currently sits on her her nightstand, Edwidge Danticat, author of a new collection called We’re Alone by Graywolf Press, responded: “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut, a fascinating, in-depth, and meticulously researched biography of Haiti’s revolutionary-turned-king.”
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