Detroit by Charlie Leduff

Detroit by Charlie Leduff

An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize­-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff

Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. Once the vanguard of America's machine age--mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles--Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.

CHARLIE LEDUFF was a staff writer at the New York Times and a reporter at the Detroit News, and is now a television journalist for Detroit s Fox 2 News. He contributed to a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times series and has received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City. He is the author of US Guys and Work and Other Sins. LeDuff lives with his wife and daughter on the edge of the Detroit city limits.
www.charlieleduff.com

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ISBN 13	9781594205347
ISBN 10	1594205345
Title	Detroit
Author	Charlie Leduff
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Press
Year published	2013-02-07
Number of pages	286
Prizes	Winner of Michigan Notable Books 2014, Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2013
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