Summary: DESERT AMERICA. In his most recent book, Desert America, award-winning journalist Rubén Martínez explores the West in our times of upheaval and recession. Juxtaposing the extreme disparities of poverty and wealth, beauty and ecological devastation, Martínez tells stories of epidemics of drug addiction, race wars, and people's displacement through gentrification in what is truly a new frontier, the South West deserts. Guest: Ruben Martinez, Emmy-winning journalist, poet, college professor, Los Angeles-Oakland, CA, http://rubenmartinez.la
