I Want My Books To Last, To

There Was A Precarious Balance During Those Crucial Months Between Composition And Decomposition - What The World Gained And What A Great City Lost. Even Then, Some Part Of Detroit Was Dying, And That Is Where The Story Begins.

Well, There Were Several Things. One Was That The Industry Itself Built In Detroit Was Abandoning The City - Taking Factories Elsewhere, The Corporate Headquarters Elsewhere.

Natural Politicians Are Skilled Actors, Recreating Reality, Adjusting And Ad-libbing, Synthesizing The Scenes, Saying The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Making It Seem That Theyare Saying It For The First Time.

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.

I Look For Two Things When I Am About To Launch Into A Book. First, There Has To Be A Dramatic Arc To The Story Itself That Will Carry Me, And The Reader, From Beginning To End. Second, The Story Has To Weave Through Larger Themes That Can Illuminate The World Of The Subject.