Martelle, Scott

Summary: "Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse--from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later--resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011

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Kinney, Rebecca J.

Summary: "The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architectural photography, advertising and commercial culture, documentary film, and print and online...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016

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Bomey, Nathan

Summary: At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history—the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? In Detroit Resurrected, Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of the fight to save Detroit against impossible...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016

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LeDuff, Charlie.

Summary: An expose of bureaucratic corruption and systemic arson in Detroit traces the author's work with a local fire brigade and his investigations into the daily lives of politicians, police officials, and others who are working to save the troubled city.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 0000

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Lasser, Scott.

Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000

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Haimerl, Amy

Summary: "Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2015

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Knoedelseder, William

Summary: Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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