LeDuff shares an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest. While redemption is thin on the ground in this ghost of a city, Detroit: An American Autopsy is no hopeless parable. 'In Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff brings alive the reality of our beloved city. In doing so, he uncovers the deeply human drama of a city filled with some of the strongest-and strangest-people our country has to offer. If Detroit is America’s vanguard in good times and bad, then here is the only place to turn for guidance in our troubled era. Once the vanguard of America's machine age-mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs-Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts.With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.

Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. MediaType Audiobook shortDescription In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nations poorest. Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his familys, and his own. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages An explosive expose of Detroit, icon of Americas lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. OverDrive Product Record sortTitle DetroitAn American Autopsy crossRefId 1277335 images

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