Sergio R. Bustos, deputy regional editor of The Miami Herald, is co-author of Miami's Criminal Past -- Uncovered (2007: History Press, $19.99). He is a native of Chile. He asked this question of Heraldo Muñoz, author of The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet (2008: Basic Books, $27.50):
Lesley Clark, The Miami Herald's Washington-based national correspondent, posed this question to Sen. Mel Martinez, who has written A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream (2008: Crown Forum, $26.95):
Steve Rothaus, a Miami Herald reporter for 23 years, covers gay issues and keeps The Herald's Gay South Florida blog. He posed this question to Dudley Clendinen, a gay journalist who has written A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America (2008: Viking Adult, $25):
Cory Nightingale, an editor on The Herald's sports copy desk, is a lifelong Philadelphia Phillies fan who also avidly follows the New York Yankees. He asked this of Harvey Frommer, whose latest book is Remember Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House that Ruth Built (2008: Stewart, Tabori & Chyange, $45):
Michael Sallah is investigations editor and author of Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (2006: Little, Brown and Company). He posed this question to Dexter Filkins, New York Times war correspondent, former Miami Herald staff writer and author of the critically acclaimed The Forever War (2008, Knopf, $25):
Glenn Garvin, The Herald's television critic, has also reported from Nicaragua for the paper. His books include Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras (Brassey's, 1992). He asked this of Daniel P. Erikson, a senior associate for U.S. policy at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington who has written The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, The United States and the Next Revolution (Bloomsbury Press, $28):
The two are best-selling authors, explorers of the race narrative -- and close friends.
Two journalists look at the role the legal system plays in the war on terrorism. One book looks at the big picture; the other at a key case.
Maybe I should revise my estimate. Lately, many people have asked me about the fate of the American newspaper in an era when circulation, advertising and staff size are all sharply down. I've told them what editors have told me: The next 18 to 24 months may well see the first major U.S. city without a daily paper.
On Tuesday, more than 64 million Americans voted for a black guy with a strange name to be their next president. When he won, the world's view of our country instantly changed, and so did the way we view ourselves.
Andrea Robinson, editor of The Herald's Neighbors sections that appear in North-Central Miami Dade and Northeast Miami-Dade, asked this question of Robert Adelman, who with Charles Johnson wrote and photographed Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Civil Rights Struggle (2007: Time, $29.95):
Juan O. Tamayo, an editor on The Miami Herald's world desk, was for many years the newspaper's foreign correspondent Latin America, Europe and the Mideast; he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1989-90. He questioned Marshal I. Goldman, senior scholar at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University and Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College. Goldman, an internationally recognized authority on Russian history, politics and economics who has advised both Presidents Bush on...
Luisa Yanez, a reporter on The Herald's regional staff, is the co-author of Miami's Criminal Past Uncovered (2007: The History Press, $19.99). She asked this question of Alex Daoud, the former three-time mayor of Miami Beach who was convicted in 1992 of bribery and who wrote Sins of South Beach (2006: Pegasus, $26.99):
Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald's environment reporter, asked this of Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (2007: University of Michigan Press, $18.95):
Terence Shepherd is multimedia business editor for The Miami Herald. He asked this question of Naomi Klein, who has written The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007: Picador, $16 paperback, $28 hardback).
John Hopkins, a veteran copy editor who works on The Herald's universal copy desk, asked this question of Mark Kurlansky, a one-time Miami Herald writer whose latest book is The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town (2008: Random House, $25):
Nancy San Martin is an assistant world editor of The Miami Herald in charge of coverage from the Americas. She has written extensively about Cuba and elsewhere across Latin America. Among the award-winning Miami Herald projects she has been involved with are ''Children of the Americas'' and ``A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans.''
Fabiola Santiago, visual arts writer for The Miami Herald, is the author of Reclaiming Paris (2008: Simon & Schuster, $24.95), a novel set in contemporary Cuban Miami. She asked this question of Madeline Cámara Betancourt, author of Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria (2008: Palgrave MacMillan, $74.95):
John Yearwood, The Miami Herald's world editor, asked this of Harvey Neptune, a Temple University professor who has written Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation (2007: Longleaf Services, $21.95), which details the story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony during World War II:
Democrat Luis Garcia Jr. is facing Republican challenger Jorge Luis López in Garcia's bid for a second term as state representative for House District 107 -- a traditionally Republican-leaning district that includes South Beach and parts of Little Havana, Coral Gables, Key Biscayne and Coconut Grove.
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