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14 Miles: Building the Border Wall Paperback – July 27, 2021

by DW Gibson (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster (July 27, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501183435
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501183430
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
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DW Gibson is most recently the author of 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall. His previous books include the awarding-winning The Edge Becomes the Center and Not Working. He shared a 2016 National Magazine Award for his work on “This Is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York magazine.

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Antonina Garcia, LCSW, TEP, co author of Sociodrama: Who's in Your Shoes?
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, compelling, at turns heartrending and wise.
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020
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This book is flat out terrific! DW Gibson not only gives us the benefits of his extensive research regarding the border wall; we hear voices of those involved and see the environment from someone who has grown up in the region. How lucky we are as readers. As I read this book, I almost felt like I was at turns walking with the author and watching a compelling and beautifully shot documentary.
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D. B. Rolling Press
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for multiple perspectives on a complex issue
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020
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This book gives insights from many perspectives on the US/Mexico border-wall, and left me with a better understanding of just how gray this issue really is.
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George L. Reeves
1.0 out of 5 stars Disjointed
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020
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Much too disjointed. The best part is the description of the functions of the pollero. Otherwise it simply wandered around the somewhat unrelated border area issues.
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Patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars people vs. policy at the border - a local perspective on a border wall.
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020
I did not know - I am an OTM immigrant ("Other Than Mexican'). I live about a mile north of I-8 in San Diego's East County. I know all the locations mentioned in the book, whether they are from trips to the local casinos, camping in the Anza Borrego desert, hiking and off-roading. Just a few weeks ago, I was at "The Wall". As a German, I of course have certain opinions about walls and borders, and this book aligns pretty well with them.

All 60 stories in this book are about the people, economy and culture or the land which starts at the Pacific Ocean between San Diego, CA, USA and Tijuana, BC, Mexico stretching for about 70 miles due east. These are the stories of the native people of the area, commerce between Mexico and the USA, legal and illegal activities and the politics and enforcement of border protection. As a local living in this particular area for close to 20 years, the stories are about a part of the live that is happening around me, that I just did not know. All these stories are connected well, despite the huge number of chapters for this size of book,

Giving the book 5-stars is a very personal rating. The author is not exactly subtle about his opinions, making at times slapstick caricatures of our now convicted congressman Duncan Hunter and still elected president Trump. While I like this unrestrained emotional writing, some may not.

DW Gibson uses some numbers, but they are often just ballpark figures, which leave some doubts about accuracy and validity. I do not look at this as a factual research paper though, more like an entertaining read about observations in the style of a Malcom Gladwell.

Wall proponents will have a hard time with this book, probably asking for burning all digital copies circulating the internet right now. It either makes them think differently, or just rage about the author and his opinions. And this is what this book is, a lot of personal opinions of the people living along the border that separates San Diego County from Tijuana.
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Jessica K
5.0 out of 5 stars Written like a slow burn thriller.
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020
DW Gibson captures the essence and lives of people I’ll never meet and brings out the intrigue of a process that’s hard for me to fathom... and makes me want to know more about them all. This nonfiction deep dive into real people around a life-determining structure and its sociopolitical shadow is strangely reminiscent for me of one of my favorite novels of all time: James Michener’s The Source. Gibson writes as though the wall has the same gravitational pull. I couldn’t put 14 Miles down.
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