detroit (mich.)

The autobiography of Berry Gordy, Sr., son of a slave and father of the founder of Motown Records.

Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.

Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.

Describes the life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French adventurer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac, discussing his founding of Detroit, his governance of Louisiana, interactions between Europeans and Native Americans at this time, and conflicts between the French and British in America.

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.

A search for closure brings a man home seventeen years after a childhood incident that forced his family out of town: his misguided attempt at age eleven to keep a troubled girl from going insane, undertaken against the backdrop of 1970s Detroit racial tensions and the city's search for a child killer called the Snowman.

Based on the recollections of a former student of the author's about the nightmare adventures of the Wendall family, living in the slums of Detroit.

Argues that integration has stagnated and that the ideals of the early civil rights movement remain the only possible American answer for race relations.

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.