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My name is greg barrios. Im a former book editor of the san Antonio Express news. I worked for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently, i right for the los angeles review of books, and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of the book of poetry that deals with la causa. In fact, its called la causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former pulitzer prizewinning editor who spent 25, with the Los Angeles Times. The crusade of cesar chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic, charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams ....
Im from new york and im a heathen from television. But in 1973 i was a young correspondent assigned to cover the white house and water gate and modestly i thought i brought with me a pretty good reputation as a political reporter in california. I had covered the rise of ronald reagan. In 1968 Eugene Mccarthy and Bobby Kennedy, the night that Bobby Kennedy was killed is seared in my memory, chicago and cesar chavez, the antiwar movement, the nixon fundraising apparatus. But in washington there was a lot of except six about whether i was skepticism about whether i was up for the job. After a month of being on the white house lawn morning, noon and night, ben bradlee who i barely knew put his arm around me and said, kid, you know what youre doing. It was began a great friendship. It was only deepened when he maried my friend ....
He was among Freedom Fighters of became mayors. And change the culture of those towns. Marion was a Freedom Fighter and a longdistance runner. You can cross the finish line with a resume, and add campaign, and some money and be on official but marion came not as a show horse but a workhorse. He came across the line with people in it. Lifting up the seniors and the poor and those was a backs were against the wall. He was a hero. He has got scars from his scars. He got his scars from his scars. Stars from his scars. Some will have only uniforms because they did not volunteer for the team. Cowards. Local changes a contact sport. Some make the team but never the field. Those on the field have grass stains and blood on the uniforms. No one ever hit a homerun or scored a touchdown from the bench or from the stands. If you play baseball, you get hit with a fastball sometimes. If ....