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In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
Let me put it thats right. I will give you little commercial here all week finish up the last details and production here. Were glad youre here today. The Detroit Historical society is pleased to host this very special event. After todays presentation, if, you are welcome i to stay as log as my credit there a lot of new things and will find very interesting. In fact on first floor, i think you will see some of the stories and some of the recollections were here today. Come to life through some videos and some artwork and photographs prince of the motown music venture we will be reference is also featured upstairs. So please dont miss that before you leave. The format today, we will have a discussion and our guest today were very pleased to have an david, of prizewinning off author of a new book called once a great city. [laughter]. Question on that. And it is a great book. But of course, it is for sale in a bookstore. So after the presentation if youre interested in purchasing the book
There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come in a half century in addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here at the Detroit Free Press where it won a Pulitzer Prize for its 1967 riot coverage. Were joined by Heather Ann Thompson and Detroit Free Press page editor steve henderson. Well be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. Can we start with the definitions in the sense that the events that took place 50 years ago described as a riot. I would say its absolutely not a riot. Because that term connotes chaos and it suggests that everyone just showed up and destroyed the city for no reason. It also suggested how we should understand what happened and what the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion. Because all of the energy and anger and activism that went into that moment had long been predicted. People had been begging for some remedy, for the housing discrimination. The Police Brutality. The eco
Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict