TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martelle,Scott
TI  - Detroit: a biography 
SN  - 156976526X (hardcover)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Chicago Review Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Detroit
KW  - History
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Population
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse--from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later--resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deep, thick seams of racism. And it raises the question: when we look at modern-day Detroit, are we looking at the ghost of America's industrial past or its future?" --Publisher
ER  -