author david clary writes the history of the mexican-american war, fighting documents to present their reasons for engaging in the confrontation. includinamerican president william paulk and mexican general and president antonio lopez the santa anna. the rosswell public library hosts this event. it is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> i would like to thank you for the introduction and for arranging this and the friends of the rosswell public library for their hospitality, and thanks to c-span for being here. this c-span2's booktv. if you have not same the, you have really miss something every weekend. and just keep in mind that when this airs, millions of people will be watching you so be careful where you scratch. [laughter] the book is "eagles and empire" the united states, mexico and the struggle for a continent and i use that word struggle because i take kind of an expanded view of what is a war. usually you think of a shooting war o1846 to 1848, most historians will say that is that. but these things don't come out of nowhere. the origins of that war go back before either country e

[applause] >> david clary is the author of adopted son, washington, lafayette in the fran back the say the revolution. he's the former chiefistorian at the u.s. forest serce. to find that more about the author visit random house.com in search david clary. >> we e at the university of north florida talking with dr. aaron sheehan-dean about his bookwhy confederates fought", family and nation in civil war. in your bucket explores virginia soldiers and their filies in the civil war. why did you oo to concentrate on virginia as opposed to other confederate sdates? >> because virginia is the most portant leader of the warnd what i was looking at was ying to assess yalties of virginia soldiers are usually fighting in a national army close to their homethat got up them so their suect t the pressure of wanting to be home and want to defend their state as well and i want to see all those variables sort of played out. >> what types of storage emerge when you were writing the book? >> the main story was a surprising one, that traditional over the course of dore confederates would give up and i fou

. >> david clary is the author of adopted son: washington, lafayette and the friendship that saved the revolution. to find out more about the author, visit randomhouse.com and search or david clary. >> washington post reporter carrie rider seven -- lid lidarson. the protest sparked national attention and led to a minimal turnout at the company's auction. representative gutierrez and many of the workers involved attended this event taped in chicago. >> kari, i thought i would begin by going back t you know, it's kind of amazing. we're sitting actually just a few blocks from the former republic windows and doors factory. we drove pretty much right past it on the way here tonight, and so it brought back a lot of memories for us who came over from around ccago and rwj thinking about those days of the round-the-clock action going on inside that factory that started out very much as a local story, right? right here in this part of chicago. but very quickly for an extraordinary, through an extraordinary turn of events became an international -- not just a national, but an international story.