It's Hard To Know Exactly How People

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.

You Also Had In Detroit That Summer, An Early Variation Of Ferguson. A Black Prostitute Was Shot In The Back By Police. And All Of The Efforts That A Very Progressive Police Chief And Mayor Of That Period Had Put Into Trying To Restore Race Relations Started To Fall Apart Again, And You Could See That Unraveling For Several Years Until The Riots Or Rebellion Of 1967.

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.

It Was A Time Of Uncommon Possibility And Freedom, When Detroit Created Wondrous And Lasting Things. But Life Can Be Luminescent When It Is Most Vulnerable.

So, I Mean, There's Still Vast Swaths Of The City That Are Suffering From A Lack Of Jobs And Poor Housing And Poor Public Schools, But They Are Building Momentum - You Know, Techies, Foodies, Artists, Musicians, All Coming To Detroit. So There Is This Vibrancy. You See It In The Newspapers Every Day - Some Story About The New Detroit.