At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. 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. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from nearly two million residents in 1950 to less than 715,000 some six decades later—resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deeply ingrained racism. Drawing from U.S. Census data and including profiles of individuals who embody the recent struggles and hopes of the city, this book chronicles the evolution of what a modern city once was and what it has become.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 A Difficult Childhood
- 2 The British Decades
- 3 Detroit and the Canal of Riches
- 4 The Civil War and Racial Flashpoints
- 5 Detroit Turns Industrial
- 6 The Auto Era
- 7 A Great Migration
- 8 The Roaring Twenties
- 9 Great Depression
- 10 The Black Legion
- 11 Housing and the Racial Divide
- 12 The War Years
- 13 The 1943 Riot
- 14 The Postwar Boom
- 15 Race in the Fifties
- 16 Death of the Covenants
- 17 The Oil Embargo
- 18 When the Jobs Go Away
- 19 Pittsburgh, a Different Case
- 20 An Epilogue
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes
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