GREENHEART & CRUDE: Four Presidents In Designing the Guyana Dream (Nightmares of Knowledge)

This book moves through four presidencies as four movements of a single composition. Each movement carries a structural label that names what the presidency contributes to the architecture of The Guyana Dream.Where does the Guyanese nation fit into humanity’s grand design? The Concept is that The Guyana Dream in this 21st century is not the work of one leader but a four-president sequence of nation-design, and that Donald Ramotar is its moral spine, the fixed point by which the others are measured.Can the nation be in a Conversation with itself? Bharrat Jagdeo builds, Donald Ramotar heals, David Granger stalls, and Irfaan Ali accelerates. Ramotar’s conscience serves as the moral voice that tests the meaning of every design choice.The geopolitical, historical, and environmental landscape within which the four presidents operate, the muddy shores of the Atlantic, the breathing edge of the Amazon, the shadows of the colonial inheritance, the Cold War residue, the Venezuelan threat, and the oil discovery that transforms everything. Read more