The book should be required reading for any American interested in legal/illegal immigration. The truth of what is happening every minute of every day should bring everyone to pause. Nothing is as it seems here or abroad. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez
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New York Times Books for August
BOOK REVIEW | EDITORS’ CHOICE Nine Great New Books for August AUG. 19, 2016 August is generally considered off-season among book people. The big summer blockbusters have already come out. Publishing people are out of the office. Everyone’s biding his or her time for the big books of fall. Not this year. August has been…
Ta-Nehisi Coates
This book is a must read for everyone. I hope that all of my students this semester will read it (it may be required!). I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay, – Coates p.11 Keep the dialogue open,…
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. -Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Her name means “Strange collections of bright victories”. How much more appropriate can the latest success of her NLD (National League for Democracy) Party be? She has been awarded: Sakharov Human Rights Prize – European Parliament (July 1991) Nobel Peace Prize (October 1991) Presidential Medal of Freedom – President Clinton awards…
Vietnam – Popular Culture Versus Reality
Vietnam – the last moments of a painful evacuation The war in Vietnam has been termed a travesty in the otherwise glorified military success of the United States. There have been multitudes of books and movies created about the events in Vietnam with varying degrees of truth and inaccuracies. It is these half truths and outright…
Renee Garris Schwabe 