Motor City Burning
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Motor City Burning
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Author : Bill Morris
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Motor City Burning written by Bill Morris and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Fiction categories.
Willie Bledsoe, only in his twenties, is totally burned out. After leaving behind a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Detroit to try to change the world, Willie quickly grows disenchanted and returns home to Alabama to try to come to grips about his time in the cultural whirlwind. But the surprise return of his Vietnam veteran brother in the spring of 1967 gives him a chance to drive a load of stolen guns back up to the Motor City, which would give him enough money to jump-start his dream of moving to New York. There, on the opening day of the 1968 baseball season—postponed two days in deference to the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.—Willie learns some terrifying news: the Detroit police are still investigating the last unsolved murder from the bloody, apocalyptic race riot of the previous summer, and a Detroit cop named Frank Doyle will not rest until the case is solved. And Willie is his prime suspect. Bill Morris' rich and thrilling new novel sets Doyle's hunt against the tumultuous history of one of America's most fascinating cities, as Doyle and Willie struggle with disillusionment, revenge, and forgiveness—and the realization that justice is rarely attainable, and rarely just.
Motor City Is Burning And Other Rock Roll Poems
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Author : Mark James Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-09
Motor City Is Burning And Other Rock Roll Poems written by Mark James Andrews and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with categories.
Motor City is Burning and Other Rock & Roll Poems is Mark James Andrews' latest chapbook of poetry, inspired by the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Motown Burning
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Author : John J. Jeffire
language : en
Publisher: Writeondetroit
Release Date : 2014-02-07
Motown Burning written by John J. Jeffire and has been published by Writeondetroit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-07 with categories.
Late July of 1967, and Detroit boils over. For Aram Pehlivanian, aka Motown, the Grande Ballroom and the music of the MC5 and Iggy Pop and The Temptations no longer provide a haven as destruction engulfs his city. However, escaping death in the streets during the '67 Detroit Riots only leads him to the jungles of Vietnam and away from Katie, the girl who might be his salvation. Beaten on the streets of Detroit, hunted in the jungles of Vietnam, and fueled to survive by the music of the Motor City, Aram burns with one goal...to see Katie again. Winner of the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition and the 2007 Independent Publishing Gold Medal for Regional Fiction.
Dispossessed
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Author : Spider Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-19
Dispossessed written by Spider Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-19 with African Americans categories.
A 2018 MICHIGAN STATE LIBRARY NOTABLE BOOK NOMINEE The deconstruction and death of a great city: In 1920, Detroit was a bustling city of almost a million people. Also the most technologically advanced and fastest growing city on the entire planet at the time. All thanks to the auto assembly line that had been invented there and had made the city a boom town ever since Henry Ford rolled out that first Model T in 1908. A city with the brightest of futures everyone agreed. By 1950, Detroit was known as Motor City, and was one the main engines driving American prosperity, the population had swelled to two million and Detroit still had the brightest future in America. But problems were already setting in. Unemployed blacks who began fleeing poverty of the Deep South in the thirties were arriving in larger and larger numbers through the forties and fifties. Even the success of the auto-making sector and all the spin-off industries that it created around Greater Detroit couldn't provide enough jobs for everyone arriving. Migration into the city was a slow-burning fuse. GIs ―both black and white―who had returned from WWII did not want to fight again for jobs on the lines. Nor did other blacks or whites already living in the city and lucky enough already to have jobs with the Big Three: Ford, GM, and Chrysler. So many new arrivals faced limited job prospects and simply gave up and went on the welfare rolls and on the hustle to survive. By the early 1960s, Motor City had become known as Motown, rising quickly as one of the new music capitals of the world. But the city was also slipping into a place of Darwinian struggle-survival of the fittest and the most desperate: too many still fighting for too few jobs available. But by the mid '60s bitterness and racial tensions had set in. Not just tensions between blacks and the still almost all-white police force, but just as much between blacks and blacks. Downtown Detroit began to empty of white people entirely as they fled by the thousands to the suburbs and the small towns outside the city, which left blacks to war with each other for very a very small patch of downtown turf black people came to know as Blackbottom. The city core was spinning out of control and Detroit was eventually overtaken by a mindless kind of violence never before seen in America. Daily attacks seemingly for no reason. Violence for the sake of striking out at someone. Anyone. I came to be that no one was safe downtown any more. By 1967 the city had earned an entirely new and sickening epithet: Murder City USA. The highest murder rate in America for many years in a row by then. A once great city with a once shining future turned into a disheartening soul-crushing urban hellscape. The people who lived there, feeling trapped and with no way out, could see and feel the city unraveling and that it had caused ordinary peaceful people to turn on each other. Black people of downtown Detroit knew they were living in a powder keg. Then, in the small hours of a searing Saturday night in July of that year, it blew. For four days Detroit was filled with gunfire and looting as the city burned. More a Vietnam battle zone than a once-great American inner city. When it was over, forty-three were dead, many hundreds were injured, and more than fourteen hundred homes, buildings, and businesses were burned and leveled. Much of the area around 12th Street was a burned-out smoldering ruins, the area black people knew as Blackbottom, the heart and soul of old black Detroit, died in those four days. Many had seen the trouble coming. Had lived with it with a growing sense of anxiety, unease, and dread as they saw where their city was headed. Saw the fuse burning. One of those who grew up there and saw it coming was my good friend Spider Jones. He was there that fateful night when the bottle smashed against the wall at 2:00 a.m. and he was sprayed with glass shards. And so it began.
Lincoln Square Corporation V Motor City Paper Tube Company 339 Mich 602 1954
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Lincoln Square Corporation V Motor City Paper Tube Company 339 Mich 602 1954 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
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Billboard
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-09-05
Billboard written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-05 with categories.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Metropolis
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Author : Robert Zecker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-12-30
Metropolis written by Robert Zecker and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-30 with Social Science categories.
Ever since the rise of mass culture, the idea of The City has played a central role in the nation's imagined landscape. While some writers depict the city as a site of pleasure and enjoyment, the thrills provided there are still generally of an illicit nature, and it is this darker strain of urban fiction-one that illuminates many of the larger fears and anxieties of America at large-that this book addresses. From The Wire's Baltimore to Martin Scorsese's New York, from the Newark of Philip Roth and The Sopranos, to Jeffrey Eugenides's Detroit, The City is everywhere, and everywhere proclaiming on the rise and Around 1900, writers for Harper's, Century, and other magazines took middle-class Americans on safari through Little Italy and the Jewish Lower East Side. Later, at the dawn of the talkies, one of the most popular genres was the gangster film, through which the city was often portrayed as a powerful force that sent poor souls to their doom. With the urban disturbances of the 1960s, popular culture took another look at the city and decided that from Detroit to Watts to Harlem, the problem had a different face. Blaxploitation classics such as Shaft and Fort Apache the Bronx, as well as police and crime films of the '60s and '70s, offered a cinematic exclamation point to the famous Daily News headline: Ford to New York: Drop Dead! Later filmmakers offered a more nuanced view of the city, with Scorsese and Coppola paying homage to an old neighborhood of wise guys and goodfellas, and Woody Allen offering the city as a home of urban aesthetes. Meanwhile, on television, crime shows (from The Streets of San Francisco to NYPD Blue, Cops, and all the CSI programs) have for decades rooted their separate identities in the crime-ridden city itself. Yesterday's foreign threat to the body politic is today's jaded suburbanite, and this work also considers the current development of the cyber-city where urban exiles use their computers to re-imagine the cities of their youth as safe, warm places where we never locked our doors. The City continues to thrill and repulse, and even the Internet once again reduces the mean streets to a titillating story arc.
Sacred Locomotive Flies
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Author : Richard A. Lupoff
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-12-17
Sacred Locomotive Flies written by Richard A. Lupoff and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with Fiction categories.
"If you have any interest at all in satire, SF's New Wave, the Sixties, pop music, comic books, the picaresque tradition in literature, juicy, vigorous, humorous writing, or even such a trivial matter as how the world of 2003 got into the state we daily observe, then you owe it to yourself to read Sacred Locomotive Flies." - Paul Di Filippo
Calling Detroit Home Life Within The Motor City
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Author : Darlena Taylor-Bonds
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-04-24
Calling Detroit Home Life Within The Motor City written by Darlena Taylor-Bonds and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-24 with History categories.
"Calling Detroit Home" will take through the history of Detroit,Michigan and tell about some of the people that help make the city what it is today. You will get angry, cry and even laugh but most of all you will know the true history of a great city.How the youngest Mayor the city has ever seen career hang in balance after evidence of a extramarital affair contradicts his sworn statement in a whistleblowers case.
The Canadian Home
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Author : Marc Denhez
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1994-09-01
The Canadian Home written by Marc Denhez and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-01 with Art categories.
Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonize with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders' Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of bureaucrats, developers, architects, and financiers and how they affect the quality, affordability, and choice of our housing today. Fiery debates over the sublime and the ridiculous (e.g. 1940s architectural articles on whether Toronto should be bombed) are set against the backdrop of Canadian politics and industrial history. Whether the reader's interest is in construction, politics, or home decor, this book explains why the roof over our heads is the way it is." Pierre Berton "In his fascinating study of Canadian shelter, Marc Denhez takes us on a 20,000-year journey from the days of the cave, the tipi, and the igloo, to the H-bomb shelter and the mobile home. This is, in short, a lively as well as an erudite study of the development of housing . [It] deserves a permanent position on any library shelf." "If you live in a house or own one or build one if you have a roof over your head read this book. A housing book with punch and humour immensely enjoyable." -Charles Lynch author, journalist and former governor of Heritage Canada.