Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
Explores everything that made Detroit great--from the auto industry visionaries to influential labor leaders to the hit-makers of Motown--while demonstrating how there were hints of the citys tragic collapse decades before the riot, years of civic corruption, and neglect took their toll.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9781476748382
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Detroit historyAuto industryUrban decline
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(2015)
Other awarded books from David Maraniss
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