Atravesando Fronteras – (Spanish)
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Nuestra “casa”, mas que un lugar fisico, es un conjunto de recuredos que nos permite comprender mejor quienes eramos, quienes somos, y puede ayudarnos a comprender quienes seremos. Ese sentido de pertenencia es el que nos define. Algunos dejan su “casa”, su hogar, muy pronto en sus vidas; para ellos es muy dificil encontrar su centro emocional. Estan, a veces, condenados a una vida sin equilibrio. Pero tambien es una existencia con mucha libertad. Sin frontera alguna, estos eternos viajeros no dejan de buscar aventuras y experiencias limite esperando encontrar algun dia, como Ulises, un lugar que puedan llamar su “casa”. Asi empieza el viaje de la extraordinaria autobiografia de Jorge Ramos, un periodista que encarna este espiritu aventurero a la perfeccion, y que espera, algun dia, encontrar un lugar en el cual se sienta como en casa. Por primera vez, Jorge Ramos, el mas prestigioso presentador de noticias en espanol comparte su vida personal con sus lectores, televidentes y radioescuchas. Hable de lost amores de su vida, de su pasion por el periodismo de sus viajes y entrevistas y de su propio concepto de realizacion espiritual. Es, al mismo tiempo, una invitacion a aprovechar al maximo cada instante de nuestra vida. En este libro conocemos al hombre de la television al que millones de latinos e hispanoparlantes le han dado toda su confianza durante anos. Asi descubrimos que Ramos es alguien que comprende que para vivir plenamente, hay que tomar riesgos, y que sin riesgos no hay recompensa. Ramos cuenta de sus conflictos, de nino, con los sacerdotes benedictinos, de sus luchas como estudianted en Los Angeles a principios de los ochentas, de su primera incursion en el periodismo norteamericano y de las advertencias de las grandes cadenas de television en ingles de que jamas llegaria a un puesto importante si no perdia su acento. Se equivocaron. De esta manera Ramos nos abre las puertas al mundo de los medios de comunicacion en espanol, un mundo que muchos criticos veian como innecesario e irrelevante y que ahora se ha convertido en uno de los sectores mas poderosos de la cultura estadounidense. Con las historias de las muchas guerras que has cubierto, los lugares que has visitado y los poderosos y temidos lideres mundiales que ha entrevistado, Ramos cautiva a sus lectores contandoles la trayectoria y los altibajos de un periodista que llego a un pais que quisiera llamar su casa, pero que no puede. Descubrimos tambien, a un hombre cuya atraccion por las e
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SKU (ISBN): 9780060559298
ISBN10: 0060559292
Language: Spanish
Jorge Ramos
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: September 2003
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
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