Land of My Birth: A Historical Sketch of the First 40 Years of the Pnp of Jamaica Volume 1 - Cooke, Leroy
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Land of My Birth puts the spotlight on the origins and consequences of Jamaica's fight for Independence. The author writes from a strategic vantage point within the country's first viable political party, the party that put Independence firmly and irrevocably on the country's agenda: the People's National Party.While its focus is on the party in the four decades that straddle this Caribbean island's political independence from Britain in 1962, the narrative sketches a panoramic context that takes in the island as a whole -- stretching from the post-slavery years of the late nineteenth century…mehr

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Land of My Birth puts the spotlight on the origins and consequences of Jamaica's fight for Independence. The author writes from a strategic vantage point within the country's first viable political party, the party that put Independence firmly and irrevocably on the country's agenda: the People's National Party.While its focus is on the party in the four decades that straddle this Caribbean island's political independence from Britain in 1962, the narrative sketches a panoramic context that takes in the island as a whole -- stretching from the post-slavery years of the late nineteenth century to the new horizons of the twenty-first, with its new challenges and opportunities.This is a story of a yet uncompleted odyssey in pursuit of a national vision: one filled with ups and downs, exhilaration and frustration, remarkable people and surprising events.The general public, Caribbean scholars, as well as anyone interested in what has made Jamaica what it is and what can make it what is should be can find something of interest in this book.
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Autorenporträt
Leroy E. Cooke, the first full-time Deputy General Secretary of the PNP, started following Jamaican politics during the 1955 General Elections. He became a member of the PNP in 1964 and worked in the Party Secretariat from 1968 to 1977, starting as the party's first National Youth Organizer. He was also a member of the party's National Executive Council between 1978 and 1988.Outside of politics, Cooke has worked at one time or another as a teacher, government clerk, rum-warehouse supervisor, community organizer, bauxite industry analyst, journal editor, radio actor and producer, trader, banker, plumbing operative, and consultant on agricultural and cooperative development.