Once in a great city a Detroit story

"As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already past history. It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; H...

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Main Author: Maraniss, David (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gone
  • Ask not
  • The Show
  • West Grand Boulevard
  • Party bus
  • Glow
  • Motor City Mad Men
  • The pitch of his hum
  • An important man
  • Home juice
  • Eight lanes down Woodward
  • Detroit dreamed first
  • Heat wave
  • The vast magnitude
  • Houses divided
  • The spirit of Detroit
  • Smoke rings
  • Fallen
  • Big old waterboats
  • Unfinished business
  • The magic skyway
  • Upward to the Great society
  • Epilogue : Now and then.