The I Index

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Top of the pile

96

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

97/100

Critics

95/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jonathan Blitzer

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Date:

January 30, 2024

A deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate.

What The Reviewers Say

Manuel Roig-Franzia,
The Washington Post
Sweeping and insightful.
Fernando Santos,
The Atlantic
Painstaking.
Matthieu Aikins,
The New York Times Book Review
Timely and instructive.
Hamilton Cain,
The Star Tribune
Blitzer assiduously chronicles this dark history with a keen eye for individual lives; the personal is literally political.