Hunger of Memory - Softcover

Rodriguez, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553231936 ISBN 13: 9780553231939

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1999

Synopsis

A personal account of what it has cost the author, nonmonetarily, to be educated beyond his origins as the son of Mexican immigrants rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

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Review

" Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography."
-- "Boston Globe"
" Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"

"From the Paperback edition."

Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography. "Boston Globe"
Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph. "New York Times Book Review"

"From the Paperback edition.""

"Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography."--Boston Globe

"Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph."--New York Times Book Review

From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Richard Rodriguez is an editor at Pacific News Service, and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and The New Republic.

Richard received a 1997 George Foster Peabody Award for his NewsHour Essays on American life. The Peabody Award is designed to recognize "outstanding achievement in broadcast and cable," and is one of television's highest honors.

Rodriguez's awards for Hunger of Memory include the The Christopher Prize for Autobiography; The Gold Metal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Anisfeld-Wolf Prize for Civil Rights. He was awarded the Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council of California.

Rodriguez's autobiographical triology about American public life includes Days of Obligation An Argument with My Father (1992) and Brown The Last Discovery of America (2002). Rodriguez lives in San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553231936
• ISBN 13: 9780553231939
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback