Imperial: the Fading American-Mexican Dream
AUGUST 10, 2009 MONDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
William T. Vollmann's latest blockbuster concerns the tragic and volatile U.S.-Mexico borderland of extreme southeastern California Imperial County, where he spent ten years talking with everyone from farmers to border patrolmen to prostitutes in his search for the fading American-Mexican dream.

Guest
  • William T. Vollmann, author of Imperial
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