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Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phonet so you dont interrupt the inven. 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
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
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