Thursday, July 3, 2014

Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery


Manley, Michael, Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery, Third World Media Ltd., June – September 1969.

Reviewed in Foreign Affairs.

Reviewed by Rex Nettleford in Caribbean Quarterly © 1982.

Reviewed by Paul Sutton in Third World Quarterly © 1982.

Reviewed by Evelyne Huber Stephens in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide © 1985.

Reviewed in Kirkus Review.

Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Coming from a prosperous background, Manley was a democratic socialist. He is considered one of Jamaica's best Prime Ministers since independence, according to public opinion polls. The second son of Jamaica's Premier Norman Washington Manley and Jamaican artist Edna Manley, Michael Manley was a charismatic figure who became the leader of the Jamaican People's National Party a few months before his father's death in 1969.

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