EAN: 9781419735233

THE GREAT GREAT WALL - IAN VOLNER KARTONIERT (TB)

During his campaign for the presidency  one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he
would build a great great wall on the border between the US and Mexico  and Mexico was going to
pay for it. A year and a half into his term  with only a few prototype segments erected  the
wall is the 2 000-mile  multibillion-dollar elephant in the room of contemporary American life.
In The Great Great Wall  architectural historian and critic Ian Volner takes a fascinating look
at the barriers that we have built over millennia. Traveling far afield  to China  the Middle
East  Europe  and along the U.S. Mexico border  Volner examines famous  contentious  and
illuminating structures  and explores key questions: Why do we build walls? What do they reveal
about human history? What happens after they go up? With special attention to Trump's wall and
the walls that exist along the US border already  this is an absorbing  smart  and timely book
on an incredibly contentious and newsworthy topic.

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