Closing Ranks is the enthralling autobiography of Leroy Logan, brilliantly portrayed by John Boyega in Steve McQueen's award-winning film anthology Small Axe.
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3000...