Detroit: An American Autopsy LeDuff CharliePaperback
Detroit: An American Autopsy LeDuff CharliePaperback An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Charlie LeDuffBack in his broken hometown, Pulitzer…
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Detroit: An American Autopsy LeDuff CharliePaperback
An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Charlie LeDuffBack in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down.
With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. Once the vanguard of America's machine age--mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles--Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary