For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
Methodist university. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you very much for that opening and welcome to all of you. We are looking forward to spending the next hour with you here. I thought i would start by expanding just a little bit on the introductions of our two distinguished panelists here. And then we will move the conversation through some areas of specific topics and then we will open it up to questions. I think you are given little blue cards as you came into the room. As you think of questions please write them down pass them to abandon the end and some folks will come by and pick them up and bring them up here and we will reserve the last portion of the meeting for some questions. So, let me start by telling just a little bit more about Alfredo Corchado. There aresome things you are do you know about him that he was born in mexico where his umbilical cord is still buried. He is the oldest of nine and moved as a young child to the United States with his family, first to calif
Next, from 18 to help texas book festival in austin, discussion went off there is Ricardo Ainslie and Alfredo Corchado on mexico. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming tonight. We are happy to be here at the texas book will. They asked me to tell everyone, please turn off cell phones to rejoin her of the conversations. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is Ricardo Ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had the unfortunate tension in recent years of being not only the most violent place in mexico, but by some accounts the most spineless in the world. He tells the story of this descent into dar
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Ifill ray suarez has the story of singers and songwriters in austin, texas, the live music capital of the world, struggling to find Affordable Health insurance. I have financially been completely devastated to walk with with million medical execs expenses. I couldnt pay for that. We look for doping scandal ploong threetle. American ifill and Margaret Warner gets an authors up close and dangerous view of corruption and drug wars in his native mexico. Its not that i have a death wish. Im staying because i really believe in the mexicans themselves and i believe that the story has to be told. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broa