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<p>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.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>combining Trenchant Observations With An Understated Style, Langewiesche, A Correspondent For The Atlantic , Limns People And Places On The Troubled U.s.-mexico Border. Traveling From Affluent San Diego, Calif., To Poverty-ridden Brownsville, Tex., The Author Zig-zags Across The Frontier, Describing Border Guards And Human Rights Monitors, Maquila Managers (business Technicians) And Labor Organizers And The Frustration And Foreboding Among Them All. In The Ranching Town Of Marfa, Tex., He Describes The Long-running Power Struggle Between Anglos And Mexicans And The Position Of An Outsider, Famed Sculptor Donald Judd, Who Has Established A Nonprofit Foundation And Provides Medical Benefits For Mexican Laborers: The Ranchers Consider Him A Subversive; The Mexicans Call Him A Fool. In Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Langewiesche Finds ``one Tough Border Town,'' Corrupte

Author

William Langewiesche

Publisher

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679759638

Subjects

History, Humanities