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Title: Cutting for Sign by William Langewiesche ISBN: 0-679-75963-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A very good read
Comment: A very good read about the tense and diverse relations that exist at the Mexican - U.S. border. Author is a good storyteller, and offers great detail. A must for anyone seeking to understand our neighbor to the South.
Rating: 5
Summary: This man knows of what he speaks
Comment: I grew up on the Mexican border, and Langewiesche beautifully captures the schizophrenic love/hate relationship entangling the two sides. He writes with the clean, precise lines of the journalist, but gives the end result a spin of philosophy that could only come from really feeling the people and places he visits. Much like his second work, "Sahara Unveiled", this is much more than reportage. It's too bad not more people have read this book...I think it would greatly help Americans' understanding of border relations.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly descriptive of my personal experiences in Marfa, TX
Comment: As a former City Manager of Marfa, Texas, I have observed and experienced first hand many of the incidents described in the book. For instance, the morning gathering of area ranchers at the former Thunderbird Restaurant, totally devoid of Hispanic participants; the persistent overtones of bigotry amoung many of the well established Anglo citizens;and, there are still semblances of the old "Patron" system alive and well.
While I can't prove that my dismissal from my position as City Manager was based on the fact that I am Hispanic, I have no doubt that the racial aspect played a part in the decision to terminate my services. Many local residents have told me that the Mayor could not stand a smart well-educated Mexcican making him look bad.
In any event, the description of Marfa and the region surrounding it are all surprising accurate. The author most certainly has a deep sense of morality, and an uncanny method of lucidly describing people, situations, and injustices.
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Title: Sahara Unveiled : A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche ISBN: 0679750061 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 24 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inside the Sky : A Meditation on Flight by Willia Langewiesche ISBN: 067975007X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche ISBN: 0865476756 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche ISBN: 0865475814 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 12 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Scientists : A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by JOHN GRIBBIN ISBN: 1400060133 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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