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i was trying to get an experienced person down to cover it. they said why don't you go. i said okay. i went down there. as i have often said to people, in the ten years i have been writing about this i have never really found the words to describe what it was like to go down in the year 2000 and to see a country that looked like it was at war right here in the united states. of little border town in the southeastern corner of arizona. i will read a fragment from my book. .. ordinary american life continued all around them. agents of my own government were chasing down farm workers an...

of, some of the broader issues are co-this is not an issue driven book via any means but we wanted to bring in the context of those issues, so in all of those ways we try to take a story everybody knew until it fresh. >> talk for a bit about the actual physical process of writing this book are co-i ran into in philadelphia at the last democratic presidential debates which i think was an april 2000008 and we had a brief conversation and what you were saying then was you have not the primaries would have been over for a long time and you would have had time in between the primaries and...

today's lineup begins with a panel of writers who live near the u.s./mexico border and write about border issues. it features margot reagan, philip caputo and david duval. following this panel, author dan balls discusses his book the battle for america 2008. we close live coverage with the national book award winning author timothy egan whose latest book the big burn recalls the largest forest fire in american history. beginning shortly, the u.s. with mexico border panel. .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. this theater seats 340 and every seat is occ...