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Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America Paperback - 1996

by Juan Gonzalez

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Juan González is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for commentary and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is the co-host of the nationally syndicated TV and radio show Democracy Now! and is a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News. His previous books include Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America; Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse; and Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America.

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Juan Gonzalez, described by the Village Voice as "the most radical person in the above-it-all world of New York daily journalism", is a reporter who takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these passionate and vivid despatches, he reports from the frontline of a social crisis which stretches from New York to Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico's maquiladoras, through to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba. Written not just about the ghetto, but from it, Gonzalez's stories portray workers on strike, refugees on the run, owners on the make and a journalist on the case. Together they bring us face to face with "human beings whose tragedies illuminate the landscape of a forgotten America".

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  • Title Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America
  • Author Juan Gonzalez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 230
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date August 1996
  • ISBN 9780860916932 / 0860916936
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.86 x 5.59 x 0.7 in (22.50 x 14.20 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions - 1980-, Poor - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95020744
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.868

Media reviews

“Compassionate and impassioned.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Gonzalez gives voice to those whose views are neither often heard nor well understood ... his stories need to be told.”—New York Times Book Review

“Reading Roll Down Your Window is like being shoved into a cold, bracing shower ... Gonzalez challenges everyone to wake up and smell the misinformation.”—LA Weekly

“The best of American journalism.”—Financial Times

“These vignettes from the political frontline make most contemporary reportage look utterly complacent ... Unapologetically passionate, committed journalism.”—Time Out

“This book deserves un abrazo grande”—Pete Hamill

About the author

Juan Gonzlez is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for commentary and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is the co-host of the nationally syndicated TV and radio show Democracy Now! and is a staff columnist for New York's Daily News. His previous books include Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America; Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse; and Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America.

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