Detroit
Subtitle: an American autopsy
By: Charlie LeDuff
Publisher: Penguin Press; Penguin Press HC, The
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781594205347
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Journalists; Biography
Description: An exposé 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.