Detroit: An American Autopsy

by Leduff, Charlie
ISBN: 9780143124467
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An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity--from 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Leduff, Charlie
  • ISBN: 9780143124467
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.35 x 0.84
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2014

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  • Investigative Journalism at it's Finest.

    Carl R. - 7 years 2 months ago

    Charlie LeDuff investigates his hometown of Detroit, Michigan after a lengthy time away. What he finds is a city near ruin, going bankrupt and a municipality in shambles. He highlights the plight of Detroit firefighters as they struggle to battle the many blazes that plague the town with very limited (and outdated) resources. LeDuff then turns his attention to the Big Three, offering a front row seat to the drama that unfolded in 2008 as the auto makers filed for bankruptcy and lobbied for a government handout. He also takes on the city government that has been bankrupting Detroit since LeDuff's childhood. I would recommend this title for anyone interested in the decline of a major american city and the effects of cronyism on local governments.

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