![]() The city where I was shot at eight times during my twenty six year police career. ""In Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff brings alive the reality of our beloved city. Retired Detroit Police Chief Ike McKinoon, for instance, says. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.Īnd they like it. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. With the steel-eyed reportage LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. ![]() Once the vanguard of America’s machine age-mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles-Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Back in his broken hometown, Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. ![]()
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