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Detroit: A Biography

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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 Biography takes a long, unflinching have a look at the evolution of certainly one of The us’s great cities and one of the crucial nation’s greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to give an explanation for how the city grew to develop into the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from nearly two million residents in 1950 to lower 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 including profiles of individuals who embody the latest struggles and hopes of the city, this book chronicles the evolution of what a brand new city once was once and what it has develop into.


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