First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century
8 best books like First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century (David Lida): A People's History of the United States, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Play It As It Lays, The Good Father, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
A People's History of the United States
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 0060838655 |
Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374529949 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
| Author | Noah Hawley |
| ISBN | 0385535538 |
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms,...
| Author | Daniel Hernandez |
| ISBN | 1416577033 |
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
| Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
| ISBN | 0679757953 |
This is an extremely engaging book about Latin America at the beginning of the ’90. Besides the amount of information related to that period, I really enjoyed Alma Guillermoprieto’s writing style. She may be describing various political events, but she never forgets to write about how these events...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Juan González |
| ISBN | 0140255397 |
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
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