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TWP Book Review: Travel as a Political Act

With guidebooks and a television show seemingly geared for septuagenarians, endless golly-gee-this-is-great enthusiasm and billowy, synthetic dad pants, Rick Steves isn’t one of my go-to sources for travel info. With some reluctance, I picked up an advance copy of his latest book, Travel as a Political Act, from the “Free Table” at the office of a magazine I was working for (FYI: the Free Table is where unsolicited review copies  go to die unless some staffer decides they’re worth taking home). I’ve snagged some very good and very, very bad material from the ol’ Free Table; [...]