Detroit: A Biography
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Scott Martelle. (2012). Detroit: A Biography. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Scott Martelle. 2012. Detroit: A Biography. Blackstone Publishing.

Scott Martelle, Detroit: A Biography. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

Scott Martelle. Detroit: A Biography. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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     Scott Martelle is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and author of three books of nonfiction. He has covered three presidential campaigns as well as postwar reporting from Kosovo. He is the cofounder of the Journalism Shop, an active blogger, and a regular book critic with reviews and articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Publishers Weekly, and other outlets. He lives with his wife and children in California.

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When we think of Detroit we think first of the auto industry and its slow painful decline then maybe the sounds of Motown or the long line of professional sports successes But economies are made up of people and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America

Detroit Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traitsand#8212;innovation entrepreneurship and an inspiring perseverance Its about the object lessons learned from the citys collapse and most prosaically its about what happens when a nation turns its back on its own citizens

story of Detroit encompasses compelling human dimensions from the hope it once posed for blacks fleeing slavery in the early 1800s and then rural Southern poverty in the 1920s to the American Dream it represented for waves of European immigrants eager to work in factories bearing the names Ford Chrysler and Chevrolet Martelle clearly encapsulates an entire city past and present through the lives of generations of individual citizens tragic story truly is a biography for the city is nothing without its people 

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   • content: "Former Detroit News reporter Martelle vividly recounts the rise and downfall of a once-great city...An informative albeit depressing glimpse of the workings of a once-great city that is now a shell of its former self."
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   • content: A lively journalist's local history is full of colorful characters and interesting facts about America's most lamented city. Martelle tells the story of Detroit from its founding, with an eye toward the roots of its current problems. Narrator William Hughes's friendly tenor makes the story more engaging. His pace is consistent and well measured, and his pronunciation is always clear. As Martelle notes, Detroit is a local problem with national roots. However, his history emphasizes decisions made within the boundary of the city and, with the exception of a brief comparison with Pittsburgh, does little to place Detroit in a broader national and international context. Still, it's a good listen. F.C. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
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     February 6, 2012
     Former Detroit News reporter Martelle (Blood Passion) vividly recounts the rise and downfall of a once-great city, from its origins as a French military outpost to protect fur traders and tame local Indian tribes, to the industrial giant known colloquially as Motown, and now when its “economy seized up like an engine run dry.” Founded by a French naval officer named Cadillac, the city became a vibrant river town with the Erie Canal’s opening, exporting both to the east and westward to Chicago. The 1855 opening of Lake Superior later expanded its postbellum shipping capacity and brought heavy industry. By 1929, about 10% of the city’s population of 1.6 million (the nation’s fourth largest) worked in automobile manufacturing. But a series of downturns ravaged the city: the 1973 OPEC oil embargo helped destroy the city’s auto-industry dominance, and drug-dealing gangs caused a murder rate that far outstripped New York’s. Today, says Martelle, Detroit has been abandoned by both the Big Three auto makers and most of its citizens, leaving primarily black residents, many uneducated, jobless, and poor. Martelle, also an occasional contributor to PW, offers an informative albeit depressing glimpse of the workings of a once-great city that is now a shell of its former self. Illus.; 10 b&w photos. Agent: Dystel and Goderich.

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