The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction
Back to the full ranking
Detroit: An American Autopsy cover

Detroit: An American Autopsy

Charlie LeDuff

0

awards won

3

score

Detroit: An American Autopsy

Detroit: An American Autopsy won the Pulitzer Prize. Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. Once the vanguard of America's machine age—mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Penguin
Year
2013
ISBN-13
9781101605882
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Urban decline in DetroitEconomic collapse and povertyFamily and personal history

If you liked Detroit: An American Autopsy, you could also like these