Once in a Great City A Detroit Story |
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Author:
| Maraniss, David |
ISBN: | 978-1-4104-8364-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $33.99 |
Book Description:
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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIt's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Henry Ford II; labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C. L. Franklin and his daughter, Aretha; Governor George Romney; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Martin Luther King. It was a time full of promise. But in Once in a Great City, David Maraniss shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIt's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Henry Ford II; labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C. L. Franklin and his daughter, Aretha; Governor George Romney; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Martin Luther King. It was a time full of promise. But in Once in a Great City, David Maraniss shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then.