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History. So if you will join you for just a second and reflecting together on that. And then we could start a little belated. [silence. Alright thank you. So this is a book that began, i began writing this book in the fall of 2014. And i began writing because i was invited to st. Louis to give a talk on washington university. I felt called to talk about the murder of Michael Brown in the protests on the uprising. So i was invited to october, went there and felt that i had to go out and present what was happening because i am a missourian and i felt that was a history in which i was both one i knew very well, and one that i was implicated in. And so with the particular kind of turn of mind, that i have, i started to look at the political economy with a particular simple straightforward riddle which is how could it be that the city of ferguson that has a 26 billiondollar corporation within the city limits, 26 billion a year, emerson electric, how could that city the funding poor black mo
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Civil war guerrilla fighters who later became outlaws in the old west, including jesse james, his brother frank, and their gang. This event was recorded by the American Civil War museum in june of 2016. Now, i will start off with a word of warning. When i compiled all the information i wanted to share with you all this evening, the first time i went through it and timed it, i spoke for an hour and a half. So i hope you all are comfortable. We might be here a while. Im just kidding josie, dont get mad at me. Last year when josie was compiling the topics for this year, she called me into her Office One Day and pitched me this idea as she mentioned. Then she ended up, when i told her that and i agreed that i probably did know somebody who might be interested in doing this topic, she said, well, you know, when i think of outlaws, renegades or scoundrels, theres only one person that comes immediately to mind. I said, im so touched. Thats exactly the type of characters every girl longs to be
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