Title: Detroit
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Journalists, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Biography, Economic history, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2013-03-03, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Journalists, biography, Detroit (mich.), economic conditions, Detroit (mich.), social conditions, Detroit (mich.), politics and government
Places: Detroit (Mich.), Michigan, Detroit
People: Charlie LeDuff