Detroit by Scott Martelle
When we think of Detroit, we think first of the auto industry and its slow, painful decline, then maybe the sounds of Motown, or the long line of professional sports successes. But economies are made up of people, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America. Detroit: A Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traits--innovation, entrepreneurship, and an inspiring perseverance. It's about the object lessons learned from the city's collapse, and most prosaically, it's about what happens when a nation turns its back on its own citizens. The story of Detroit encompasses compelling human dimensions, from the hope it once posed for blacks fleeing slavery in the early 1800s and then rural Southern poverty in the 1920s, to the American Dream it represented for waves of European immigrants eager to work in factories bearing the names Ford, Chrysler, and Chevrolet. Martelle clearly encapsulates an entire city, past and present, through the lives of generations of individual citizens. The tragic story truly is a biography, for the city is nothing without its people.
"Scott Martelle has the rare ability to bring alive a patch of history from several hundred years ago as skillfully as he does a present-day Detroiter in his living roomThis is an extraordinary riches-to-rags story that raises big questions for national policy." --Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Scott Martelle, is a Los Angeles Times staff writer, and a veteran of the 1995 Detroit Newspaper Strike. A native of Maine who grew up in rural western New York, he lives with his wife and their two sons in Irvine, California. Visit Scott's website at www.scottmartelle.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9781613748848 |
| ISBN 10 | 1613748841 |
| Title | Detroit |
| Author | Scott Martelle |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
| Year published | 2014-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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