It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

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 basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.