About this book

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

  • biography
  • detroit (mich.), economic conditions
  • detroit (mich.), politics and government
  • detroit (mich.), social conditions
  • economic conditions
  • economic history
  • journalists
  • journalists, biography
  • new york times bestseller
  • new york times reviewed
  • nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2013-03-03
  • politics and government
  • social conditions