Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. "Elegiac and richly detailed" ( The New York Times), in Once in a Great City David Maraniss shows that before the devastating riot, before the decades of civic corruption and neglect, and white flight before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Yet the shadows of collapse were evident even then. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before. Franklin and his daughter, the incredible Aretha Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate car salesman Lee Iacocca Police Commissioner George Edwards Martin Luther King. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford Henry Ford II Motown's founder Berry Gordy the Reverend C.L. "A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry" ( Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.ĭetroit in 1963 is on top of the world.
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