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.

-David Maraniss

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I Discovered In Writing The Biography Of

David Maraniss

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.

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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.

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