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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Early Years
- 1. The Frustrations of Genteel Poverty
- 2. Scholar’s Scholar or Nationalist Scholar?
- Part 2. Seeking the Political Kingdom
- 3. Prometheus Bound: Williams and the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission
- 4. Letting Down My Bucket
- 5. The Bastard Child of World Democracy
- 6. The Birth of the People’s National Movement
- 7. The Movement Launched
- Part 3. Federation and the Struggle for Chaguaramas
- 12. Prometheus unbound
- 13. The Recalcitrant Minority and the Federal Elections of 1958
- 14. The “War” for West Indian Independence
- 15. Chaguaramas and the Promised Political Kingdom
- 16. Slavery to Chaguaramas
- 17. The Federal Collapse: “An Absolute Blessing in Disguise"
- 18. One from Ten Leaves Nought
- Part 4. Securing the Political Kingdom
- 19. The Elections of 1961: Consolidating the Power Base
- 20. The Elections of 1961: Massa Day Done
- 21. The Approach of Independence
- 22. The “Hindu Question”
- Part 5. The Realities of Independence
- 23. Cabinet and Party in Independence
- 24. Operation Jobs: Restructuring the Trinidad Economy, 1956–1966
- 25. Heroes in Conflict: James versus Williams
- 26. The Roaring Seventies
- 27. The One-Horse Elections of 1971
- 28. Farewell and Return
- 29. Williams and the Republican Constitution
- 30. Bloody Tuesday and the“Unmixing” of Oil and Sugar
- 31. Williams versus the People’s National Movement
- Part 6. Williams as Policymaker and Political Manager
- 32. The Move to the “Left”:Industrial Policy in the Post-1970 Era
- 33. Steel versus Brown Sugar
- 34. Williams and Laventille: The Failure of Black Entrepreneurship
- 35. Williams and His Mandarins
- 36. Breaking the “Damn” Circle: The Politics of Education
- 37. The Hero as a “Man of Culture”
- 38. Small Country in a Big World
- Part 7. Williams: The Myth and the Man
- 39. Liberal Democrat or Sawdust Caesar?
- 40. Man Talking to Man: Williams and the Calypsonian
- 41. Accounting for My Stewardship
- 42. Sleaze and Immorality in Public Affairs
- 43. The Last Days of Eric Williams
- 44. Apostles, Apostates and Ecumenists
- 45. The Myth of Eric Williams
- 46. Williams in the Balance
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- References
- index
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