Detroit: Crash and Burn

From boom to bust, Detroit has crashed from its status as one of the world’s industrial heavyweights in the 1950s. It is now a shell of its former glory and its population has shrunk to half of what it once was. Founded on the back of the motor industry, and fuelled by America’s love of the car, Detroit is the canary in the coal mine - the first to feel the effects of economic downturn, oil crisis, or political instability. Nearly half of the population are functionally illiterate, and unemployment is the highest in the USA. This book gives an informative and graphic interpretation of the rise, the pride, and the fall of the Motor City.