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Jericho
When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable Unnatural History of America sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city over millennia. From the ruins of Jerichos walls Bowden reflects on the continuum of war and violencethe many conquests of the Americas the US-Mexican War the Vietnam War and the ongoing militarization of our southern borderto argue against the false promise of security that is offered when men build that wall. Wallsboth real and imaginedwill always come tumbling down. Read more