{"product_id":"once-in-a-great-city-a-detroit-story-paperback","title":"Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Maraniss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry\" (\u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eOnce in a Great City \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDetroit in 1963 is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the incredible Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; car salesman Lee Iacocca; Police Commissioner George Edwards; Martin Luther King. The time was full of promise. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before. Yet the shadows of collapse were evident even then. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Elegiac and richly detailed\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), in \u003ci\u003eOnce in a Great City\u003c\/i\u003e David Maraniss shows that before the devastating riot, before the decades of civic corruption and neglect, and white flight; before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. It was being abandoned by the new world economy and by the transfer of American prosperity to the information and service industries. In 1963, as Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to prosperity and jazz that was already past history. \"Maraniss has written a book about the fall of Detroit, and done it, ingeniously, by writing about Detroit at its height....An encyclopedic account of Detroit in the early sixties, a kind of hymn to what really was a great city\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Maraniss is an associate editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s--\u003ci\u003eRome 1960\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOnce in a Great City \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the RFK Book Prize); and \u003ci\u003eThey Marched into Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760695869728,"sku":"9781476748399","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6ae0f596bd5fc68d5d5cb4944d729592.webp?v=1780187173","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/once-in-a-great-city-a-detroit-story-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}