Jorge Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards and has been the anchor for Univision News for the last twenty-one years. He has appeared on NBC’s Today, CNN’s Talk Back Live, ABC’s Nightline, and Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor, among others, and is the bestselling author of No Borders: A Journalist’s Search for Home and Dying to Cross. In his career he has been in many dangerous places.

Recently, Jorge was on the CBS’s Early Show to talk about his new book. He told about how one sunny morning he was driving to his dentist’s office when suddenly a van almost hit him head on and killed him. That shock, more than all the horrors he had witnessed as a journalist, brought him face to face with his own mortality.

He realized that he had almost lost the opportunity to tell his story to his children. His response was to write another book, The Gift of Time: Letters from a Father. In it, according to Barnes & Noble, he “reflects upon the world we live in and shares his love for his children in a series of letters that touch on everything from love and divorce to soccer and e-mail.”

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