Even ones about his own parents' emigration to the U.S. (from Italy).  Not only that, but he has not totally read the book.  (He "may have" read the parts relating to illegal immigration.)

Sometimes, it takes being under oath to take the tough-guy, in-your-face attitude out of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (and others like him).  And, when you get well-known 1st Amendment attorney David Bodney taking a 7-hour deposition from Arpaio, a lot of the bluster loses its luster.

Although listed as the key author and there being video of Arpaio telling someone at a book-signing that everything they need to know about the topic of "illegal immigration" is in his book, Arpaio quickly backed off from the contents of the book.

The answer to that last question was "yes", though he replies "Yeah, I may have", when asked whether he read the parts relating to the illegal immigration problem.  (The book is titled/subtitled:  Joe's Law: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else That Threatens America.)

He disclaims that he believes that "Illegal immigration" is one of the things that "Threatens America." (the sub-title)  He disclaims that he knows anything about the text in the book that speaks of Mexicans' attempts to emigrate to the U.S. in order to speed a "reconquista" - or, getting the U.S. to return lands to Mexico.

Arpaio went so far as to say that the paragraphs that talk about his parents' own emigration from Italy to the U.S. were not written by him, that he did not review the claims word-for-word and that he does not agree with the statements about Mexicans being the only immigrants who do not hold "to certain hopes and truths."

Of course, there is a lot more to the deposition, including walking through many of the statements Arpaio made on Fox News, CNN, etc.  The full transcript can be found here.

Some of the video of the deposition has been made available on Channel 12's website (in a reporter's package) and on the Phoenix New Times' website (video package put together by an activist interspersed with a couple of snippets of previous bluster by Arpaio).

The federal civil rights suit will continue, and there will likely be further depositions of other key members of the MCSO.