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Book review: The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries - Volume 4, by Anthony L. Hall
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| Published on Friday, July 24, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version
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Caribbean Net News op-ed columnist Anthony Hall has recently published his fourth annual retrospective compendium of insight and observations on the events of the previous year.
Mr Hall’s look back at 2008 -- The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries, Volume 4, covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects, including sports, celebrities and infidelities, the US presidential election, Cold War redux, the global financial crisis, and corruption in an island paradise, in his inimitably enlightening and entertaining style.
This year’s volume is conveniently ordered by topic making it easy for the reader to refer to particular sections and items of interest.
Of particular interest to our readers will be the regional perspective Mr Hall brings to much of his commentary and, clearly, he is not someone to be trifled with. After all, the former premier of the Turks and Caicos is on record as accusing Mr Hall of bankrupting his country (page 131) and “When A.L. Hall speaks, people should listen” (page 263).
Topics of special Caribbean interest in 2008 include numerous and extensive commentaries on the situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands that eventually resulted in the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to look into allegations of government corruption and serious dishonesty; the passing of celebrated poet, novelist and politician Aimé Césaire in Martinique; and the changing (or not) of the political situation in Cuba.
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Anthony L. Hall is a descendant
of the Turks & Caicos Islands,
international lawyer and political
consultant - headquartered in
Washington DC - who publishes
his own weblog, The iPINIONS
Journal, at http://ipjn.com
offering commentaries on
current events from a
Caribbean perspective |
For Mr Hall, like Shakespeare, all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are players (often to be lampooned), with their exits and their entrances.
In politics, we have the entrance of “Sarah who…?” (page 232) and, in sports, the athletic coming of age of Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt (page 311 et seq).
Mr Hall is also never one to overlook the sexual escapades and peccadilloes of the famous, including gubernatorial infidelity (page 61); a threesome in the Turks and Caicos Islands (page 128), all coupled with his report “Women satisfied in 3 to 13 minutes… who knew?” (page 75).
As always, Mr Hall tackles all of these topics and many more with his trademark confidence, flair and humour.
Highly recommended reading.
The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries - Volume 4 is now available at all major booksellers, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. | | | | Reads : 1121 | | | |
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