Detroit - Read Jim Fulner

Audiobook

English language

ISBN:: 978-1-4551-2843-3

When we think of Detroit we think first of the auto industry and its slow painful decline then maybe the sounds of Motown or the long line of professional sports successes But economies are made up of people and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America

Detroit Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traitsand#8212;innovation entrepreneurship and an inspiring perseverance Its about the object lessons learned from the citys collapse and most prosaically its about what happens when a nation turns its back on its own citizens

story of Detroit encompasses compelling human dimensions from the hope it once posed for blacks fleeing slavery in the early 1800s and then rural Southern poverty in the 1920s to the American Dream it represented for waves of European …

When we think of Detroit we think first of the auto industry and its slow painful decline then maybe the sounds of Motown or the long line of professional sports successes But economies are made up of people and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America

Detroit Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traitsand#8212;innovation entrepreneurship and an inspiring perseverance Its about the object lessons learned from the citys collapse and most prosaically its about what happens when a nation turns its back on its own citizens

story of Detroit encompasses compelling human dimensions from the hope it once posed for blacks fleeing slavery in the early 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 names Ford Chrysler and Chevrolet Martelle clearly encapsulates an entire city past and present through the lives of generations of individual citizens tragic story truly is a biography for the city is nothing without its people

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JIm FUlner reviewed Detroit by Scott Martelle

2 stars

The author Scott Martelle is a crazy left wing nut job who apparently has done some historic research. Not fun hippie libreal, more like crazy thinks-encourgaging-violence-as-long-as-its-against-those-who-thought-up-the-plan-to-make-a-company-succeed Socialist liberal. returnreturnWilliam Hughes, the reader of the a udio book, is an over educated twerp who insists on pronouncing things "correctly" (read wrong) think MAY-CUM count instead of Macomb and Grey-twa Avenue instead of Gratiot)returnreturnThe begin is interesting enough going back to tribal days and early French settlers. Hughes pronunciation was already annoying here, but I thought he'd change once Michigan joined the union, nope. returnreturnBy the time we get to the industrial revolution Martelle is so blinded by hatred of capitalism that he cannot point out the valuable contributions Henry Ford and his competitors gave to the region other than jobs which apparently should be an Americans natural birth right. returnreturnAll in all this one sided look at history is …

The author Scott Martelle is a crazy left wing nut job who apparently has done some historic research. Not fun hippie libreal, more like crazy thinks-encourgaging-violence-as-long-as-its-against-those-who-thought-up-the-plan-to-make-a-company-succeed Socialist liberal. returnreturnWilliam Hughes, the reader of the a udio book, is an over educated twerp who insists on pronouncing things "correctly" (read wrong) think MAY-CUM count instead of Macomb and Grey-twa Avenue instead of Gratiot)returnreturnThe begin is interesting enough going back to tribal days and early French settlers. Hughes pronunciation was already annoying here, but I thought he'd change once Michigan joined the union, nope. returnreturnBy the time we get to the industrial revolution Martelle is so blinded by hatred of capitalism that he cannot point out the valuable contributions Henry Ford and his competitors gave to the region other than jobs which apparently should be an Americans natural birth right. returnreturnAll in all this one sided look at history is worth skipping. The more well rounded (though unfortunately shorter and more personal "Detroit An American Autopsy" is far better).

Subjects

Detroit (mich.), history