Desert America A Journey Through Our Most Divided Landscape

Name: Desert America A Journey Through Our Most Divided Landscape
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ISBN: 9781250024145

ISBN-10: 1250024145

ISBN-13: 9781250024145

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Authors: Ruben Martinez, Rubï¿½n Martï¿½nez

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A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West - a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migrationThe economic boom - and the devastation left in its wake - has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Ruben Martinez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin.In…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ruben Martinez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and poet, is associate editor at Pacific News Service and a correspondent for PBS's religion and ethics news weekly. Author of The Other Side, he has appeared as a commentator on Nightline, Frontline and CNN. He lives in Los Angeles.



Introduction: Snow in the Desert



Mornings in New Mexico



House of the Moon



In the Shadow of the Black Mesa



Water in the Desert



A Walk in the Woods



Where the River Bends


Conclusion: Neighbors


Acknowledgments