Focused on 1963, this is a story of everything great in Detroit. A manufacturing powerhouse thanks to the Big Three auto makers, visionary city leaders that came VERY close to landing the 1968 Olympic games, Motown, promising civil rights and race relations...it is really a city on top of the world. So what happened? Maraniss shows that signs of the upcoming problems were around even in 1963. Detroit took it on the chin in many ways following its years of glory...could that have been prevented? Was the decline inevitable? I think Maraniss does a good job of discussing the change that was going on even as the city was on top.
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