Detroit: A Biography, Paperback

Reducere. At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub and t...

Reducere. Ferne, a Detroit Story, by Barbara Henning, is a stunning recreation of her mother's life. Ferne Hostetter died when the author was eleven years ol...

Reducere. James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Bor...

Reducere. It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but it was the creative genius...

Reducere. Dominique Morisseau, a rising star of the playwriting world and recipient of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American Histor...

Reducere. Dan Lewis' life story is a collage of sounds, people, and places that evoke tears, laughter, and nostalgia. Despite being confined to a wheelchair ...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History Two siblings find themselves caught up in Detroit's 19...

Reducere. With only two members and no bass player the White Stripes certainly seemed like the ultimate makeshift band. So how is it that this enigmatic coup...

Brothers Eddie and Brian Holland share their story for the first time, starting with growing up in Detroit raised by a single mother and their gran...

Reducere. Hyena is a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the reader on his journey of heartbreak, depravity, and hilarity, d...

Reducere. Poetry collection by John Jeffire. Jeffire was born in Detroit. In 2005, his novel Motown Burning was named Grand Prize Winner in the Mount Arrowsm...

Contributor(s): Author: Betty ShamiehA play about love, sex, ambition, and the Arab American experience, ROAR is the story of a Palestinian America...

Reducere. In the Spring of 2002, thirty-one-year-old Antoinette Bostic, an African American woman raising three daughters on her own, graduates from the Detr...

Elia Hohauser-Thatcher's debut chapbook, The Prophet's Toothbrush, explores and deconstructs masculinity, coming of age in Detroit, and familial in...

Reducere. Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary ...

Reducere. Ofield Dukes is considered one of the nation's most successful African-American public relations practitioners and one of the most influential peop...

Now in paperback: essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand...

The Four Tops are a vocal quartet formed during 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the '60s. The group...

Reducere. On August 23, 1907, Sister Janina waved good-bye to her priest, who was headed out for an afternoon of fishing, and retired to her convent cell to ...

Reducere. A poignant and revealing memoir from a legendary entertainer. Donna McKechnie began her love affair with dance as a child in Detroit. At fifteen, s...

Reducere. Over 13 months in 1976--1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were du...

As seen on the Today Show This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and ...

Michael Chemny's autobiography, The Oath: A Quest for Freedom in War-Torn Ukraine, tells the incredible story of one young man's love of the simple...

Reducere. Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michig...

Reducere. Anan Ameri played a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Wandering Palestinian chronicles h...

Reducere. In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their ...

Reducere. Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Gu...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Marge PiercyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 137 x 211 x 20Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. This book is a mix of stories about growing up in Detroit, going to Catholic school, and the Polish people in the fifties and sixties. The author t...

Reducere. The fumes of crowded Greyhound buses, a Floridian coast visited by Father Time, a woman with a penchant for birds and elevators--what is the substa...

Reducere. This is the story of a very confused young man who grew up in a volatile home, was guided by music, witnessed the downfall of Detroit and set out t...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move. Flee is a mode of being and of making, one that moves fr...

Reducere. Binga is the definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived...

Reducere. In this heartfelt tribute to the most inspiring women in her life, Teresa Renda Carlson reveals how one life can be powerfully shaped by the collec...

Reducere. A classic and highly acclaimed biography of civil rights activist Malcolm X, ever more relevant for today's readers.As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm...

Reducere. A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb--"The best work ever written on thi...

Reducere. What Do You Mean A Black Girl Can't Design Cars? Emeline King, She Did It! is an autobiography detailing the life of Emeline King, the first Africa...

Reducere. "Your dad has cancer." Ten-year-old Sharon hears these words. Not from her parents. They lied. Set mainly in 1950s and 1960s Toronto, this is Sharo...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

Reducere. Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores h...

Reducere. DescriptionA frank examination of Aretha Franklin, Mark Bego's definitive biography traces her career accomplishments from her beginnings as a twel...

Reducere. A book of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The...

Reducere. "Wonderful " (Grace Paley). "Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written" (Detroit Free Press). "Provides edifying advice, intimately given, lik...

Reducere. The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do. Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's poems measure the...

Reducere. The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connect...

Reducere. Patti Smith is one of pop culture's true originals. The 1975 release of her debut album Horses signalled the start of a career full of passionate c...

Reducere. The Book, Letters from South Carolina, is a collection of a total of seventy-five letters to the editor by author, Steven Hawkins, who started writ...

Reducere. More than 40 years ago, three girls from the Detroit projects made the world 'Stop!' and take notice of their fresh harmonies and classy style. Cul...

Reducere. The original four volumes of the collected works of Frederick Douglass included a substantial number of his writings and speeches but far from all ...

Reducere. In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline,...

Reducere. "My Life and Work", by Henry Ford, reads not only as a memoir of an American icon, but also shows the spirit that built America. Written in 1922, t...

Reducere. A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flag...

Reducere. Eight-time Grammy Award(R) winner CeCe Winans has broken new ground as a superstar of gospel: her celebrated career includes platinum and gold albu...

Reducere. From shootouts and robberies to riding in cars with pimps and prostitutes, Frederick Reynolds' early manhood experiences in Detroit, Michigan in th...

Reducere. For more than a half century, as a superstar ballplayer, television broadcaster, and front office executive, Al Kaline has personified the Detroit ...

"A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." --Rolling Stone Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daught...

Reducere. Growing up, they didn't believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever.Alexis Black persevered through her mother's death and her f...

Reducere. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many Af...

Reducere. Until 2012 the name Sixto Rodriguez didn't mean much in America. But in South Africa, Sixto Rodriguez was a rock 'n' roll legend. When a documentar...

Reducere. During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohi...

Description Iconic ballplayer Rocky Colavito captivated fans during the 1950s and 1960s with his movie-star looks, boyish enthusiasm, powerful bat...

Reducere. History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Mey...

Reducere. Loner is a personal memoir of one man's experience in South Vietnam and the aftermath of serious injury. Told with authentic detail, humor, and pat...

Reducere. This is a faithful reprint of Taylor Mead On Amphetamine and In Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth. Volume Three. Last p...

Reducere. "Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care, " tells what happened to a little black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlo...

"Jimmy Hoffa Is Missing"This was the main headline that appeared on the front page of The Detroit Free Press-Metro Edition on August 1, 1975. It wa...