about purpose is to learn and think about a new book of great importance to members of our society. david s new book protestants abroad it, a missionary tried to change the world but changed america, we have the galleys. it is not quite available in bookstores. it appears this fall from rinsed in the press. i have the honor of sharing this roundtable. we will proceed as follows. first, david will speak to lay out the books major themes. we will hear from our panel of three distinguished historians responding. they will appear in the order of the program. thatt to address an error he organizedor, and brought us together. he has modestly declined to participate. he is at the top of the description and we may or may not from here dashcam in the larger discussion. we thank him for bringing us across the room here. after hearing from our panelists, we will turn to open discussion. hopefully we have 20 of time for that area plenty of time for that area i am pleased to introduce d
only at parrot dies could see there are tremendous discrepancies between who is in jail and who is feeling the brunt of the drug war versus the number and diversity of those engage in illicit drug use. if white suburban teen-ager s noting could gain a large ails the government s explanation would have more credibility. in attempting to account for the origins of the drug war we are in effect attempting to explain this discrepancy. if we find a government s explanation to be woefully incomplete then the story of how and why the drug war can about what restore what is missing. in my book i argue that the drug war s shade, scope and function resulted from certain dilemmas of governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. story is impossible to tell without the district of columbia. tonight i will focus largely on the 1-way street that is the imposition that the federal government made on washington d.c. but i want to make it clear that in reality and in my book fair is mu
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