Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man

by Selwyn D. Ryan

Eric The Myth and the Man seeks to illuminate the political career of one of the Caribbean’s most elusive Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Selwyn Ryan uses a wide array of primary sources, letters, interviews, material from the Public Records Office in the United Kingdom, State Department records in the United States, and the Eric Williams Memorial Collection in Trinidad and Tobago, and demonstrates a strong mastery of secondary sources to provide a sophisticated political analysis of Williams’s role in Trinidad and Caribbean politics.

842 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2008