eduardo galeano was born in uruguay. i mentioned to him just a minute ago that i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and latin american studies and writing as a journalist about latin america was because of your work. so it is a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> guest: thank you. >> host: you've been in the states a while now. >> guest: ten minutes. [laughter] >> host: you just arrived. and i know you're going to new york. >> guest: and afterwards other cities. to help my new baby, called "mirrors", help litwak. it's a baby. >> host: this is the book, "mirrors" stories of almost everyone. but of course i checked out the spanish title, it is [speaking spanish] which means it universally almost. >> guest: if you say universal history it sounds so swollen and arrogant. my intention was to write a homage to human diversity without boundaries, without tears, no frontiers at all. three lead. it was a mad adventure and the titles are more or less and try a

. >> host: thank you very much, eduardo galeano, the author of "mirrors," stories of almost everyone. it is a wonderful book. it is one that you can't stop breeding, and it has been an honor to talk to you. i have wanted to do this for many years and it has been great that i have been able to do it. and, i am john dinges and i'm speaking with eduardo galeano, and we will end it there and thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. i forgot, absolutely forgot that i was in a tv studio. i was having a nice, talking conversation with a friend in a cafe. thank you. thank you. >> host: i enjoyed it. >> now political consultant dick morris, the former adviser to president clinton is the co-author of the book, "catastrophe," which accuses president obama of being too radical and criticizes his policies on the economy, healthcare and national security. mr. morris talked about the bucket the book review bookstore in a long island town of huntington, new york. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank you. you know, my ego is not such that when i encountered this traffic on the way here, i

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. >> host: chaim john dinges talking with eduardo galeano and we are talking about his book, "mirrors." eduardo is particularly important in latin america because he has captured the long history of repression and exploitation, immigration and conquests and has done this in a number of books and that wasn't enough just to talk about latin america. he is now taking on the history of the world with this new book, "mirrors." i wanted as we broke we were talking about your way of putting fees' together. one of the people i guess it was an interview that i read in which you were talking about your way of writing and you used the word -- which is the feeling thinking. >> guest: feel thinking. it is a language, a feeling thinking language able to express the mind and heart. >> host: how do you collect your stories so that you actually have those vignettes of 30 or 40 lines? >> guest: well, trying to unite a part of ourselves, the mind and the heart and the horrors and the marvels of life because if i would be just a writer writing about repression and death and the terrible life of so many p

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