LA Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico [Hardcover]

Alan Weisman (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Journalist Weisman and photographer Dusard have combined their talents to offer a powerful and sensitive interpretation of the 2000-mile border region between Mexico and the United States. Although Weisman does not offer solutions to the overriding issuesincluding drug trafficking, illegal immigration, pollution, cultural differenceshis sympathetic portrait suggests numerous perspectives, allowing various characters ranging from border patrol agents to drug dealers to present their own views. The narrative, combined with Dusard's crisp photographs, accurately captures the limbo of a borderlands region that is neither Mexican nor North American. Highly recommended for most libraries. Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Studies Dept., Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition (November 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151473153
• ISBN-13: 978-0151473151
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 10.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of the critically acclaimed New
York Times best seller The World
Without Us, Alan Weisman is an
award-winning journalist whose reports
have appeared in HarperÄôs, the New
York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly,
Discover, and Orion, among others,
and on National Public Radio. A former
contributing editor to the Los Angeles
Times Magazine, he is a senior radio
producer for Homelands Productions
and teaches international journalism at
the University of Arizona. He lives in
western Massachusetts.