Detroit: an American autopsy

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An explosive expose of Detroit, icon of America's lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city, and shares an unbelievable story of a hard to…

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Full title :Detroit : an American autopsy / Charlie LeDuff.

Summary

An explosive expose of Detroit, icon of America's lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff.

Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city, and shares 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781101605882, 110160588X
oclc:on1153290969
LC Classification:HC108.D6
Dewey Decimal:977.4/34044

Subjects

Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal M… collective biographies Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions Detroit (Mich.) -- Politics and governm… Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions Economic history Historical Journalists Journalists -- Biography. -- Michigan Journalists -- Detroit (Mich.) LeDuff, Charlie Michigan -- Detroit Nonfiction Politics and government Social conditions Sociological