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"As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already past history. It's 1963 and Detroit 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; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Kennedy acolyte; Police Commissioner George Edwards;…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2015Simon and Schuster · 464 pages · 9781476748382
State & LocalHISTORY / General20th CenturyGeneralHISTORYHISTORY / United States / 20th CenturyDetroit (mich.), historyNew York Times bestseller
