{"product_id":"cutting-for-sign-paperback","title":"Cutting for Sign - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Langewiesche\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The border between the United States and Mexico extends 1,951 miles. Among the people who live along it are a migrant laborer huddled in a makeshift camp, a Chicano cowpuncher, a Pima Indian who makes his living tracking drug smugglers across the desert, and the millions crowded along the border in Mexicali. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this beautifully written, unerringly insightful book, William Langewiesche allows us to see this boundary in all its political, moral, and emotional complexity. Whether he is patrolling the border with officers of the U.S. Immigration Service or talking with the desperate men and women who cross it every day, Langewiesche is always engaged in what trackers call \"cutting the sign\" reading the marks that human beings have made on this contested land and decoding the meaning they hold for the rest of us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Spellbinding. . . . The reportage  is] high art . . . for Langewiesche painstakingly uncovers the connections between elusive clues as he searches out the border and its people.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Langewiesche\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven previous books\u003ci\u003e Cutting for Sign\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSahara Unveiled\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInside the Sky, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Sea, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Atomic Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eFly By Wire\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the international editor for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.7 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47519649104093,"sku":"9780679759638","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Ksi5dwrY839780679759638.webp?v=1772231770","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/cutting-for-sign-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}