LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david rieff

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  • At the Point of a Gun
    David Rieff
    Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- David Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged by the West or the United Nations in the name of human rights and democratization. His report is anything but reassuring. I...
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  • A Bed for the Night
    David Rieff
    Timely and controversial A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Drawing on first-hand reporting from hot war zones around the world - Bosnia Rwanda Congo Kosovo Sudan and most recently Afghanistan - Davi...
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  • The Exile
    David Rieff
    'The Exile' is a fascinating portrait of Miami’s Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century. David Rieff, whom the San Diego Tribune called our 'modern Alexis de Tocqueville', has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrant...
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  • Los Angeles
    David Rieff
    In 'Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World,' David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refu...
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