While working as a prison guard in Sing Sing, Conover pays a price for the tough attitude he develops as a survival skill. Ted Conover’s new book, The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today, will be released on February 9. His book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Rolling Nowhere; Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Mexican Migrants and Whiteout: Lost in Aspen.

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