detroit

Coleman Young reexamines his journey from "Big Time Red" on the Prohibition streets of Detroit to five terms as the city's mayor, looking back on decades of modern African-American movement.

The author chronicles his 1999 baseball adventure: attending all eighty-one home games at Tiger Stadium in its last season. In the process, he examines his relationships with his father and his young son.

Paul Clemens recounts his childhood in Detroit, describing what it was like to grow up white and working class in a city that epitomized white flight and urban decay.

After leaving rural Virginia for Detroit in 1963, a young black girl struggles with divided loyalties as she begins to see her family in a new light.

Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.

Charlie LeDuff examines what destroyed his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, by investigating politicians, trying to understand the systemic arson and bureaucratic corruption within the fire departments, meeting with union bosses and homeless squatters, while trying to understand how the ordinary people are holding the city together.

A woman and her family struggle to keep their dignity as they move from the hills of Kentucky to the chilling indifference of a big midwestern city.

Photographs and text help trace the history of Detroit's auto industry, and discuss the influence the city had on the development and manufacturing of cars in the United States.