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Baltimore’s tangled history, firmly in the shadow of Annapolis, has given it an inferiority complex. So says Johns Hopkins professor emeritus of political science Matthew Crenson , whose new book is: Baltimore: A Political History . We ask him why early town fathers didn’t have the power to keep pigs from wandering the streets, how investing in the first interstate railroad left the city too debt-burdened to pay for police and schools, and why he thinks Baltimore has tried to deal with race issues by not talking about them. A book launch will be held tonight, August 8th, at 4 pm, at the Baltimore City Archives, 2615 Matthews St.