A candid, savvy, inspiring, and often hilarious memoir by one of America’s most fearless political leaders.
Beloved by the immigrants and working people whose rights he has championed, twelve-term Congressman Luis Gutierrez is, among Latinos and along with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the most recognized Hispanic public figure in America.
Here Gutierrez recounts his life between two worlds: too Puerto Rican in America, where he was born and yet was told to "go back to where you came from"; too American in Puerto Rico, where he was ridiculed as a "gringo" who couldn’t speak Spanish. For much of his early life, he seemed like the last person who would rise to national prominence. Yet his tremendous will and resilience shaped his varied experiences―from picking coffee beans to driving a cab―into one of the most surprising careers in American politics. He campaigned for Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of his house, and he only grew more committed to reform. Tested in the crucible of the notoriously tough Chicago city council, he earned the nickname "El Gallito": the little fighting rooster.
Gutierrez was one of the first Latino public figures to support gay rights; he led the fight to cut Congressional paychecks, hashed out legislation with both Ted Kennedy and John McCain, and fought with Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush. Despite his strong support for Barack Obama in two elections, he was arrested twice while protesting for immigrants in front of the Obama White House. From recollections of his failures as a teenage activist to his crackling observations of the nautical décor in Kennedy’s office and the white-gloved waiters of the Speaker’s dining room, Gutierrez is as endearing to the reader as he is sometimes maddening to his colleagues, inspiring us all to stand up for our rights and for those of others. 8 pages of photographs

Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill

Biographies & Memoirs

Gutiérrez, Luis

Community & Culture

W.W.Norton&Company

Picturesque Rioja, Spain’s most prominent wine region, is a new world within a very old world. Winemaking here dates to Roman and medieval times, and today modern wineries designed by Gehry, Calatrava, and other celebrity architects flourish alongside traditional villages. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of the people and landscape and with detailed maps, this guide ranges over a diverse area from Rioja to Navarra, Bierzo, Galicia, and the Basque country as it explores winemaking from the ancient to the traditional and modern. Written by a trio of experts on Spanish wine, it provides insider information on a region home to Spain’s finest Tempranillo, its prestigious Albariño, and many other indigenous grape varieties such as Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Viura. The authors look in depth at topics including climate and soil, grape varieties, and viticulture, and profile more than 85 individual wineries. They also include information not available elsewhere: several top ten lists plus “secret addresses” for the best restaurants and shops in which to find aged and historic vintages of Rioja.

The Finest Wines of Rioja and Northwest Spain: A Regional Guide to the Best Producers and Their Wines (Volume 5) (The World's Finest Wines)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Barquín, Jesús

de la Serna, Victor

Beverages & Wine

University of California Press

«Presento aquí una selección personal de catorce perfiles que cubre la mayoría de la geografía vitícola española. Perfiles que hablan de historias, de paisaje, de viñedo y de gastronomía, de pasión y de tradición. No encontrarán taninos, ni añadas, ni puntos, ni notas de cata sino un lado humano muchas veces obviado y el contexto de lo que hay en cada botella, incluyendo la gastronomía local, que cada uno de nuestros personajes vive a su manera y de la que el vino forma una parte integral. Son los nuevos viñadores. Una nueva generación de viticultores españoles». Luis Gutiérrez\nBook Description\nUn relato sobre la nueva generación de viticultores, su historia personal y su esfuerzo por recuperar las mejores vides y variedades autóctonas de cada región.

Los nuevos viñadores: Una nueva generación de viticultores españoles

Cooking Education & Reference

Planeta Gastro

“I traveled over the course of almost two years with photographer Estanis Núñez, an old friend of mine, just like we used to in our rock‘n’roll days, taking photos, eating and drinking together. This book contains 14 profiles of vignerons, each of them different, spanning most of the wine-producing regions of Spain. There are others, but this is my personal selection. Their profiles talk about the history, landscape, vineyards, cuisine, passion and tradition of their region. You won’t find tannins, anthocyanins, vintages, points or tasting notes here. I am hardly going to talk about wine at all. But you will find the often-forgotten human side and the context of what is in the bottle, including local cuisine (where wine plays an important role) as well as each winegrower’s personal take on it. . Their main aim in life is to portray the uniqueness of their vineyards, villages and landscapes through a bottle of wine. Wine that can transport you back to the time and place it was produced the moment you drink it. These are the new vignerons. A new generation of Spanish winegrowers.”\nBook Description\nA refreshing voice and a purist’s detailed look at some of the most complicated and compelling wines in the world.

The new vignerons: A new generation of spanish wine growers

La primera edición de esta novela española que tanto éxito tuvo durante el siglo XIX salió de las prensas parisinas en 1801. La venta de libros procedentes del extranjero estaba entonces rigurosamente controlada en España, así que el único recurso posible era despacharlos de contrabando o entregarlos a viajeros españoles qu

Cornelia Bororquia o La víctima de la Inquisición (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ediciones Cátedra

Saber cuidarse: Los mejores consejos para tu salud de Saber vivir

Montero, Mariló

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ediciones Martínez Roca

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