Product Description

Never before has Jorge Ramos, one of broadcast journalism's most influential personalities, let readers into so personal a space. From the lovers he's had throughout his life to his passion for journalism to his own sense of fulfillment, Ramos allows us to intimately know a man we've trusted to deliver the news for years.

Ramos details his struggle as a student living in L.A. in the early 1980s, his first foray into American journalism, and the English-language establishment that told him he would amount to nothing if he didn't lose his accent. Ramos then invites us into the early days of Spanish-language news and media -- an industry that most early critics thought was useless and irrelevant -- whose now skyrocketing popularity has made it a powerful player in American culture.

With insight into the many wars he has covered, the places he has seen, and the world leaders he has interviewed, this is the powerful memoir of a man whose search and ambition for a career in journalism have led him to be "one of this country's highest rated network news anchors" (Nightline).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1100551 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Released on: 2003-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Ramos (The Other Face of America), seven-time Emmy Award-winning news anchor of Noticiero Univision, moved to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 25 and has lived here for 20 years. "What am I," he pointedly asks, "a Latino, a Hispanic, a Latin American immigrant, or a Mexican?" This question resonates throughout his affable memoir, and it turns out to be unanswerable. By the book's end, Ramos is still searching for a place where he does not "feel like a foreigner" or someone who's "just arrived." These efforts to define himself, however, did not distract Ramos from pursuing an enormously successful career. In easygoing prose, he describes his rise to become, at 28, "one of the youngest national anchormen in the history of American television." Claiming not to believe in luck, but rather in preparedness, he tells readers he was chosen for one of his first big assignments (covering the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt) simply because he was the only reporter in the room with English language skills and a ready passport. Speaking from extensive experience, Ramos points out the curious position of Spanish-language journalists in this country: "Most of the United States, of course, does not understand us [Spanish-language journalists]," and "many people do not even know we exist." Yet Univision is America's fifth largest station, and when Ramos and his co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas host the evening news, they attract 10 times the viewing audience of CNN at that time slot. Readers from this large viewing audience will devour Ramos's inspiring immigrant story. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Booklist
Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and author of The Other Face of America (2002), Ramos this time explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of his own career in journalism. Although he has lived and worked in the U.S. (20 years) nearly as long as he lived in Mexico (24 years), Ramos maintains the feelings of an immigrant--a sense that he belongs to both countries but does not fit into either one. He puts his insider-outsider perspective to use in his news analysis, bringing a different perspective to news events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Ramos recalls his rebellious spirit as a youth and his eventual decision to leave what he describes as the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico's unruly economy, regressive politics, and traditional social values. He finds his Latin background by turns a deterrent and a benefit to his career as he makes a life for himself in the U.S. Readers interested in the immigrant experience, particularly of Hispanics, will enjoy this insightful memoir. Vanessa Bush
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Review
"A thoughtful and often compelling biography." (Mike McDaniel, Houston Chronicle )

"Informative, up-to-date and intelligent." (Gregg Barrios, San Antonio Express-News )

"An insightful memoir." (Booklist )

"A page-turner." (Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News )

Customer Reviews

Absolutely inspiring!
Having read The Other Face of America, I had to get my hands on Jorge Ramos's memoir. He has inspired me to pursue a career in journalism, which is why I have followed his career for years. In No Borders, Ramos gives the reader an inside look into the life of a young Hispanic male seeking the American Dream. He moved to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of twenty-five, with very little experience in the journalistic field. Twenty-years later, he is a seven-time Emmy Award winning anchorman for Univision. From his tale of how he became one of the most successful reporters to recaps of his biggest news assignments, No Borders is an inspiring memoir about a man who stopped at nothing to get to where he is today...

Absolutely Astonishing
This has to be one of the most astonishing and incredible memoirs of hispanics living in the United States. I loved Ramos's simplistic style, yet profound way of describing his thoughts. For those interested in journalism, this is a book to read.

Good Reading
This book reflects how an immigrant who works hard in the USA can succeed financially and professionally. Ramos has certainly proved that=--Congratulations. It is unfortunate that even though he has interviewed leaders of other countries and see how government in other countries hold back progress of their own people and yet Ramos hesitates to call USA his home. As he acknowledges Mexico made him and USA developed him...like a biological farther who has a child yet never nourishes or parents his child but the stepfather is really the "Father" because the step dad has cared, nourished the child. USA has been the step father for Ramos in many ways.