Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

Categories: History

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss returns to his birthplace of Detroit to tell the story of the city at its peak in 1962 and 1963. Maraniss follows the auto industry, the rise of Motown, the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Walk to Freedom, and the city's political and labor leaders. He shows a city full of energy and promise while revealing the forces that would later bring about its decline.

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