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NO BORDERS; A JOURNALIST’S SEARCH FOR HOME

Non Fiction
0066214149
Jorge Ramos
USA $24.95
CANADA $37.95

Home is a collection of memories. Home allows us to better understand who we were, who we are, and can fatefully predict who will become. A strong sense of home completes us. Some leave home early in their lives, and thrill after thrill, struggle to get back to their emotional center. Without borders, these eternal wanderers never give up looking for life’s next adventure, hoping that one day, they will find a place that they can once again, call home.

So begins the thoughtful journey of an extraordinarily sensitive autobiography from Jorge Ramos, a man who perfectly embodies this adventuresome spirit, and who hopes to one day, find that place to which he may finally feel anchored.

Never before has Jorge Ramos, award-winning anchorman for America’s top rated Spanish-language nightly newscast, let readers into so personal a space. From the loves he’s had throughout his life, to his passion for the journalistic career which first brought him to the United States, to his own sense of spiritual fulfillment, Ramos ultimately inspires readers to seize every moment of every day.

Beginning with the house in Mexico where Ramos spent his most formative years, to his youthful dream and heartbreak in attempting to qualify for the Olympics, to his life-altering decision to move to the United States, leaving friends, family, and a country whose political corruption Ramos felt first-hand, behind, we come to personally know a man we’ve trusted for years. We realize that Ramos is a man who firmly grasps the idea that in order to live fully, one must take chances, and that risk is what ultimately leads to wisdom.

Ramos details his struggle as a student living in early ‘80’s L.A., his first foray into American journalism, and the English-language establishment who told him he would amount to nothing if he didn’t lose his accent. Ramos then lets us into a world that most early critics thought was a useless and irrelevant form of media in the United States, to what has now become a powerful player in our media dominant culture; the skyrocketing rise of Spanish-language news and media.

From the many wars he has covered, and the places he has seen, to the world leaders he has interviewed, Ramos pulls readers in with a powerful story of a man whose search and ambition for a career in journalism has led him to the country he would love to call home, but cannot. We come to know a man whose humor and sense of fearless adventure have simultaneously brought him close to death and has saved him, and whose weekly Saturday soccer match is as close to a sure thing in a life that is layered with the trials of the unexpected.

A father, a journalist, husband, and son, Ramos shows in No Borders, that each one of us can be a witness to history, and that wandering may in fact be preferable to forever staying in one place.