Natural Politicians Are Skilled Actors, Recreating Reality,

I Discovered In Writing The Biography Of Bill Clinton That It Is Actually Easier To Write A Biography Of Someone Who Is Dead. Although You Can't Interview Them, You Have A Fuller Perspective On Their Whole Life After They're Gone And People Are More Willing To Talk About Them.

It Was So Crucial To The Civil Rights Movement That On June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King Came To Town, Walked Down Woodward Avenue With More Than 100,000 People And Delivered The First Major Public Iteration Of His "i Have A Dream" Speech, Two Months Before He Did It In Washington.

My Favorites Are Stevie Wonder And Marvin Gaye, But Those Are A Little Off In Terms Of Getting Detroit Right On The Head. But Of Course, You Know, "dancing In The Streets." You Can't Forget The Motor City. And We Can't Forget The Motor City.

Detroit Was An Exaggeration Of What Was Going On Across The Country. You Could See The Divisions, Even Within The Civil Rights Movement Of That Period. At The Same Time That Martin Luther King Was Talking About His Dream, Malcolm X Gave His Most Famous Address In Detroit During That Same Period, "the Message To The Grass Roots," Dismissing The Notion Of Integration.

I Said That I'm Only There To Write The Truth, I'm Not Going To Cover Anything Up, But I'll Put Everything In Context And Get As Close To The Truth Of This Person As I Can.