Around 200 people gathered at the Turner-Surles Community Center in Decatur on Thursday night for a People’s Town Hall with former Decatur Police Chief Nate Allen, who said he “saw
mainland of the united states since the war of 1812. it was a, perhaps, one of the most traumatic events in the lives of many of the people that are here. to me, it ranks with an event that i was witnessing as a younger person, pearl harbor. but it caused tremendous burdens to fall on our law enforcement agencies, on our first responders of the fire services and so on. it was, obviously, a tragic event for so many families in this country, and i think that every citizen felt this personally in one way or another the nothing more than observing what went on on television for those fateful hours. but it also had a tremendous impact on our legal system and on our judicial system. and that is something that is still going on today as many of the issues that began on the 11th of september, 9/11, continue today to be litigated in the courts and to have great, a good deal of legal scholarship. and one of the very important contributions to this legal scholarship on this summit is th
and came out slightly the world a little bit better place and it was almost a survival mechanism for me and i came across marx the same way and i had just moved to london and i was really looking for a subject that would bridge the world that i just left which was washington politics and the new world. so marx kind of was that bridge for me. host: so around the same subject, your first two biographies one on two sisters who collected a lot of art and eventually gave it all to museums, mostly in baltimore, i understand. guest: yes. host: and a biography of victoria woodrow very important but little known feminist from the mid to late part of the 19th century and you choose to do a biography on karl marx s life and it seems kind of a leap. guest: yes. host: how did one after doing biographys on two people about whom there can be i m sure very few biographies, how did you jump to someone about whom there are a dozen biographies if not more in the english langua