![]() ![]() Detroit is where his mother's flower shop was firebombed where his sister lost herself to drugs where his brother works in a factory cleaning Chinese-manufactured screws so they can be repackaged as "Made in America." But all that is behind him now, after returning to find his hometown in total freefall. ![]() In another life, Charlie LeDuff won the Pulitzer Prize reporting for The New York Times. A city the size of San Francisco and Manhattan could neatly fit into Detroit's vacant lots. Once the vanguard of America's machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. ![]() Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. An explosive exposé of Detroit, icon of America's lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |