In the Line of Duty: Reflections of a Texas Ranger Private
Growing up in Central Texas in the early part of this century as a young man from a poor farming family, Lewis Rigler decided that there must be something else out there. That “something else” turned out to be an appointment to the Texas Rangers. In a career spanning three decades, Ranger Rigler witnessed an era of great political and social turbulence and change in the state as well as within the Ranger force he had sworn to serve. His service involved investigations into kidnappings,...
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\ BooknewsJacobson (sociology, Arizona State U.) examines how the concepts of citizenship and the state have been affected by the growing population of foreigners and undocumented immigrants in the US and western Europe since World War II, the increasing obligation of host countries to grant them at least minimal rights, and the rise of international laws protecting human rights. He focuses especially on Germany and France in Europe; and compares how Germany, with an ethnic base for citizenship, and the US, with a political base, have responded differently to immigration. Of interest as the demographic impacts of the European Union and NAFTA manifest. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
