{"product_id":"americas-most-alarming-writer-9781477319901","title":"Americas Most Alarming Writer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) used his keen storyteller’s eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. In \u003ci\u003eAmerica’s Most Alarming Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, key figures in his life—including his editors, collaborators, and other writers—deliver a literary wake for the man who inspired them throughout his forty-year career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart revelation, part critical assessment, the fifty essays in this collection span the decades from Bowden’s rise as an investigative journalist through his years as a singular voice of unflinching honesty about natural history, climate change, globalization, drugs, and violence. As the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e noted, “Bowden wrote with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Charles Bowden's] life and work are celebrated in this essential collection of 50 reflections and appraisals contributed by writers, collaborators and fellow desert rats whose lives were changed when they intersected with his…Dip in anywhere, at your leisure; you cannot fail but to come away inspired. * Pima County Public Library, \"Southwest Books of the Year\" *\u003cbr\u003eBowden's impact, both on Southwest letters and on the national conversation about the borderlands, is clearly evident in this collection of 50 essays…\u003ci\u003e[America's Most Alarming Writer]\u003c\/i\u003e is not simply a recounting of shared incidents in an eventful life, nor is it just an assessment of a remarkable body of work. Importantly, it is a revealing document about a fiercely driven investigative journalist’s relentless pursuit of the truth in the face of a society too willing to look the other way. * Arizona Daily Star *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Most Alarming Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, the best essays are those that don't idolize or indulge our compulsion to honor the dead. * High Country News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction, Bill Broyles and Bruce J. Dinges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeginnings \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver the Rainbow, Peg Bowden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Campus, David F. Allmendinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaking History Off Campus, Charles Bowden letter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStreet Signs with Lew Kreinberg and Charles Bowden, Barbara Houlberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChuck Becomes a Reporter, Kathleen Dannreuther\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet the Tortoises Roll, Norma Coile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jimi Hendrix of Journalism, Tony Davis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBowden’s Southwest \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStand My Watch, Katie Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGive Light to the Air, Molly McKasson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow’s My Government?, Ray Carroll\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscovering Chuck, Winifred J. Bundy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr. Southwest, Joseph C. Wilder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChuck’s Desert Garden, Kasey Anderson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlanting Trees, Kim Sanders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Man for All Seasons, Phil Jordan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChuck Bowden in the Twilight Zone, Cal Lash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Most Fearless Writer in America, Ken Sanders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublishing Chuck \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting in the Moment, Melissa Harris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Big Kick: Editing Chuck, Rebecca Saletan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOf Rock ’n’ Roll and Corn Laws: A Few Words on Charles Bowden, Gregory McNamee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSketches of Chuck, Tim Schaffner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssembling a Bowden Bibliography, Walt Bartholomew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLessons from Anger and Love, Clara Jeffery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollaborators \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviewing a Tire, Jack Dykinga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDickens, Melville, and Bowden, Michael P. Berman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver the Line, Alice Leora Briggs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeart’s Desire, Molly Molloy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite, Red, and Black, Julián Cardona\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraveling and Not Traveling with Chuck, Eugene Richards\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailing Bowden \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBowden’s Need to Walk, Judy Nolte Temple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBowden Nails the Door Shut behind Us, Todd Schack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuir, Abbey, Bowden, Mike Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Desert Evening with Chuck, Michael Lundgren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mesquite Tree and the Endless Loop, Tom Sheridan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriters on Bowden \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerica’s Most Alarming Writer, Jim Harrison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe Heard the Music, Scott Carrier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Bowden and La Santa Muerte, Leslie Marmon Silko\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe License Plate Said “Hayduke”: Chuck Bowden and the Red Cadillac--A Memory, Luis Alberto Urrea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScratchboard Opposites, Gary Paul Nabhan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrawn to the Flames: Bowden and Agee, Expanding the Boundaries of American Nonfiction, William deBuys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWild Gods of Mexico, Don Henry Ford Jr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing the Line, James Galvin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fountain Theatre, Francisco Cantú\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePure Bowden, William Langewiesche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStreet Reporter on La Línea, Philip Caputo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo One Gets Out Alive, Richard Grant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere Stands a Reporter, Tom Zoellner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePacking Chuck’s Legacy, Mary Martha Miles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy We Carry On, Alan Weisman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Have Had to Make Up My Life As I Went Along, Charles Bowden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCopyright and Credits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408955744599,"sku":"9781477319901","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/americas-most-alarming-writer-9781477319901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}