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Cutting for Sign
Contributor(s): Langewiesche, William (Author)

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 ISBN: 0679759638     ISBN-13: 9780679759638
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE: $18.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 1995
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Annotation: With the demise of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, there remains no more potent--or notorious--political border than the 1,951-mile division between the US and Mexico. Langewiesche shows us how a simple line--a legalism across the land--is also a mirror that reflects our ideals and fears.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - Mexico
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Travel | Mexico
Dewey: 972.1
LCCN: 9309040
Series: Vintage Departures
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.54" W x 8.7" L (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - Mexican
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The border between the United States and Mexico extends 1,951 miles. Among the people who live along it are a migrant laborer huddled in a makeshift camp, a Chicano cowpuncher, a Pima Indian who makes his living tracking drug smugglers across the desert, and the millions crowded along the border in Mexicali.

In this beautifully written, unerringly insightful book, William Langewiesche allows us to see this boundary in all its political, moral, and emotional complexity. Whether he is patrolling the border with officers of the U.S. Immigration Service or talking with the desperate men and women who cross it every day, Langewiesche is always engaged in what trackers call "cutting the sign" reading the marks that human beings have made on this contested land and decoding the meaning they hold for the rest of us.

"Spellbinding. . . . The reportage is] high art . . . for Langewiesche painstakingly uncovers the connections between elusive clues as he searches out the border and its people."--Boston Globe
 
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