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The child of an Italian American grocer, Arpaio spent much of his life chasing drug dealers for the U.S. government, foreshadowing his terror-inducing reign in Arizona.
Terry Greene Sterling is affiliated faculty and writer-in-residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. She is the author of Illegal. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, the Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Atlantic, Slate, the Daily Beast, the Village Voice, High Country News, the Guardian, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and other publications. Sterling is Editor-at-Large for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
Jude Joffe-Block has reported on immigration for more than a decade for outlets that include NPR and the Guardian. She was a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation and a fellow with New America, the Center for the Future of Arizona, and the Logan Nonfiction Program while coauthoring this book. She began her journalism career in Mexico.