Jennifer Garcon’s dissertation, Haiti’s Resistant Press in the Age of Jean-Claude Duvalier, 1971-1986, is an original account of the collapse of the Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his regime in 1986. Arguing against the prevailing narrative that Duvalier’s demise was a sudden development, Garcon shows how political dissidence took root more than a decade earlier, in 1971, with the opening of limited press freedoms in both print and radio productions. Through a painstaking analysis of previously unexamined primary source materials, including newspapers, weekly journals, and Creole-language radio broadcasts, Garcon demonstrates how alternate media forms sowed the seeds of incremental political change in Haiti during the 1970s and 1980s. Garcon’s study constructs a sophisticated media history, one that casts light on the complex relationship that existed between Duvalier’s authoritarianism, Haiti’s public culture, and the dynamic free press of the period. More than a historical account of Duvalier’s regime, Garcon’s dissertation presents a timely assessment of the role that free press media makers, producers, and audiences play in provoking political change in totalitarian regimes.