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Audiobooks. bibliography Biographies. biography collective biographies. history History. Nonfiction.Boyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Detroit 1936: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, baseball fan Dayton Dean is arrested for murder. Though said to have a childlike intelligence, Dean possesses a vivid memory and a hunger for attention. He gives police a story about a secret Klan-like organization called the Black Legion, responsible for countless murders, floggings, and fire bombings. The Legion has tens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur StantonMason, Philip P. (Philip Parker)
Summary: History of life in Michigan during prohibition when seventy-five percent of the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States came across the Detroit River from Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 364.133 MASBak, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 796.357 BAKMaraniss, David
Summary: "It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.434 MARGenat, Robert
Contents: The fine art of street racing Woodward style -- Cruising Woodward's drive-ins -- Muscle cars on Woodward -- Woodward's car dealers and Detroit's speed shops -- Fast cars and rock & roll, Woodward's soundtrack -- Woodward dream cruise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CarTech 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 GENWhyte, Kenneth
Summary: "A provocative, ground-breaking history of the downfall of the American auto industry from the widely praised author of Herbert Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 WHYMaraniss, David.
Summary: In 1963 Detroit was on top of the world. The city's leaders were among the most visionary in America; it was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. The time was full of promise. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015