Detroit A Biography

Name: Detroit A Biography
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ISBN: 9781569765265

ISBN-10: 156976526X

ISBN-13: 9781569765265

Edition: 2011

Authors: Scott Martelle

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At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit’s status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out.Detroit: A Biographytakes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America’s great cities, and one of the nation’s greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from nearly two million residents in 1950 to less than 715,000 some six decades later—resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deeply ingrained racism. Drawing from U.S. Census data and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



A Difficult Childhood



The British Decades



The Morans



Detroit and the Canal of Riches



The Civil War and Racial Flashpoints



Detroit Turns Industrial



Michael Farrell



The Auto Era



A Great Migration



The Roaring Twenties



Great Depression



The Black Legion



Housing and the Racial Divide



The War Years



The 1943 Riot



The Postwar Boom



Race in the Fifties



Henry Russell Jr.



Death of the Covenants



The Baloks



The Oil Embargo



John Thompson



When the Jobs Go Away



Shelley



Pittsburgh, a Different Case



An Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Notes


Index