The Algiers Motel Incident - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Algiers Motel Incident write by John Hersey. This book was released on 1968. The Algiers Motel Incident available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Detroit
Detroit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit write by Charlie LeDuff. This book was released on 2014-01-28. Detroit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff “One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal “Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself–and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.” —Kirkus Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. 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. 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. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is 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.
Detroit 67
Detroit 67 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit 67 write by Stuart Cosgrove. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Detroit 67 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others. Detroit 67 is “a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City” during the year that changed everything (Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political, and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the breakup of the Supremes, and the damaging clashes at the heart of the most successful African American music label ever. Set against a backdrop of urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam, and police corruption, the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power, and local guitar band MC5—self-styled holy barbarians of rock—went to war with mainstream America. A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth, known for its unique creativity, its unpredictability, and self-lacerating crime rates. The year 1967 ended in social meltdown, rancor, and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unraveled. “A whole-hearted evocation of people and places,” Detroit 67 is “a tale set at a fulcrum of American social and cultural history” (Independent).
Detroit 1967
Detroit 1967 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detroit 1967 write by Joel Stone. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Detroit 1967 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.
Violence in the Model City
Violence in the Model City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence in the Model City write by Sidney Fine. This book was released on 2007. Violence in the Model City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. On the 40th anniversary of this nation-changing event, we are pleased to reissue Sidney Fine's seminal work--a detailed study of what happened, why, and with what consequences.
