';A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry' (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.Detroit in 1963 is on top of the world. The citys leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; Motowns 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...
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