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Book Review: Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, Bloomsbury USA, New York, 2010, 203 pages Review by Curt Prendergast – CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, Yahoo News, Google News, your local newspaper, the blogosphere, the Huffington Post, Politico.com, Slate.com, (and the Sonoran Chronicle, […]
Book Review: Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol By Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California Press, 2010, 284 pages Review by Curt Prendergast *** In one of the few books to profile the institution of the U.S. Border Patrol, Kelly Lytle Hernandez provides a much-needed narrative of one of the most influential organizations in the […]
Book Review: The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism
The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism By Roxanne Lynn Doty, University of Arizona Press, 2009, 160 pages Review by Curt Prendergast *** Arizona has become the “epicenter of anti-immigrantism,” wrote Roxanne Lynn Doty in her book on the rise of border vigilantism and the increasingly stringent immigration enforcement measures […]
Book Review: The Legacy of Conquest
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West By Patricia Nelson Limerick, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1987, 349 pages Review by Curt Prendergast *** A recent headline on the front page of the Arizona Daily Star read “‘Invasion’ claim over SB 1070 shot down.” The state of Arizona had countersued […]
“Imperial”: A crazed obsessive navigates the West
Review by Paul Ingram – “Imperial” by William T. Vollman 1200 pages, $35.00. Vollman once referred to the gargantuan “Imperial” as his Moby Dick and while some have called the nearly 1200-page tome nearly perverse for appearing as a massive chunk of notes and indiscriminate ideas, the book’s singular focus on the single California county […]
Book Review: Imagining the Southwest
Review by Curtis Prendergast – ” target=”_blank”>”The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic” By David W. Teague, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1997 The author takes the reader from the time when the Southwest was viewed as a barren wild to the present, in which the landscape […]
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