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‘Not Bad For A South Texas Boy.’ The making of Federico Peña

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<p>(Nathaniel Minor/CPR News)</p>
<p>Federico Peña in his downtown Denver office on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.</p>

Denver's first Latino mayor and former U.S. Secretary of both Transportation & Energy shares what it was like to grow up in Brownsville, Texas and reflects on Denver's explosive growth in a new biography.