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Langewiesche, William American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
North Point Pr 2002 0865475822 / 9780865475823 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Appears uread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1,. NO writing, marks or tears. 205 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-TimesWithin days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and in the process reinvented themselves, discovering unknown strengths and weaknesses. In all of its aspects--emotionalism, impulsiveness, opportunism, territoriality, resourcefulness, and fundamental, cacophonous democracy--Langewiesche reveals the unbuilding to be uniquely American and oddly inspiring, a portrait of resilience and ingenuity in the face of disaster.
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Langewiesche, William Cutting for Sign: One Man's Journey Along the U.S.-Mexican Border
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 1995 0679759638 / 9780679759638 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. 247 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. From Publishers Weekly 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," corrupted by drugs. The book's title comes from customs agents who "cut for sign," looking for evidence (a tire track, a footprint) of illegal entry. They may be skilled, but, as the author observes: "There are 400 million crossings of the border every year, and the future belongs to free trade." The border, he concludes, is a "word game" and "more intricate than a simple boundary line." Mexico's problems, he notes, have become ours. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Langewiesche, William The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
North Point Pr 2004 0865475814 / 9780865475816 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. Map endpapers. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 239 pages. Synopsis Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--begins just a few miles out and spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will. Here is free enterprise at its freest, opportunity taken to extremes. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of two perfectly adapted pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism. This is the outlaw sea--perennially defiant and untamable--that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.
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