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Whenever we think of Detroit, we think to begin the automobile industry and its slow, painful drop, then maybe the does sound of Motown, or the long type of professional sports activities successes. But economies are made of individuals, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the very most compelling stories in America. Detroit: A Biography by journalist and writer Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of qualities - advancement, entrepreneurship, and an inspiring determination. It's about the thing lessons discovered from the city's collapse, and, most prosaically, it's in what happens when a nation changes its back on its own citizens. The storyline of Detroit includes compelling human proportions, from the desire it once posed for blacks fleeing slavery in the first 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 titles Ford, Chrysler, and Chevrolet. Martelle evidently encapsulates a whole city, previous and present, through the lives of generations of individual individuals. The tragic storyline truly is a biography, for metropolis is little or nothing without its people. Scott Martelle is a former Los Angeles Times personnel writer and writer of three catalogs of nonfiction. He has covered three presidential campaigns as well as postwar reporting from Kosovo. He is the cofounder of the Journalism Shop, a booklet critic, and an active blogger. He lives along with his partner and children in California.
