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For the newly released a second book called a history of violence. This work is hugely important but for the englishspeaking public of the United States the circumstances of Central America as they make their way to mexico into the United States is a humanitarian crisis. With many dimensions riding with Investigative Journalism they are bringing the circumstances to life in your honored and delighted to have him here with us as part of our distinguished guest to be introduced by diana in a few minutes but first i will handed over to sofia. The First Published the beast in english it was one of...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Thank you so much for coming to this event. My name is i am the managing director of the hemispheric institute. And my colleague, hemi and bristol books are very proud to organize this book launch event for owes scar martinezs newly released and second book called the history of violence living and dieing in Central America. This work is hugely important for us at the institute but i think for public, englishspeaking public in United States, the circumstances of Central American refugee and migrants in their countries and in mexico a...

Champion of liberty award from the Goldwater Institute among many, many others. . 1986, the wall street journal called him perhaps the most powerful journalist in america and the Chicago Tribune has dubbed him americas leading poet of baseball. For me, three things stand out above and beyond his innumerable intellectual contributions and accolades. First is his television fame. I refer here not to fox news or his incredible run on the abc sunday talk show this week, although i must say i learned a lot about how to think like a lawyer from watching him on that show on sundays in the 1980s and 9...

Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, why bob woodward . That might be the easiest one of all. Many people consider the New York Times the ...

Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that question. I said, but i dont think youve answered it. And then he said, astonishingly, ok, im going to...