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Once in a Great City
Detroit in 1963 is on top of the world.
David maraniss once a great city interviews
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.“Elegiac and richly detailed” (The New York Times), in Once in a Great City 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 n