(Part 2) Top products from r/Detroit

Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss is really good. It covers Detroit in the mid-1960s, when things were generally 'good,' but the cracks were already starting to show. One of my favorites I have read.

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The absolute best for what you described is Origins of the Urban Crisis, which others have mentioned here.

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I also recommend The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs. It talks about Detroit a lot, but isn't centered around Detroit, but it's very interesting. Her documentary is also on Netflix which I highly recommend, much more Detroit themed. She was a very influential person in Detroit and the United States in general, and I'm always shocked when I bring her up and people haven't even heard of her.

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Oh and Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor is very good. It's a memoir but it also talks about what Detroit was like in the 1980s and kind of gives you a feel for the era of Detroit that we all know about, but there aren't many stories about.

Origins of the Urban Crisis, which is on that list, is a must-read.


I haven't read all the ones on that list but I recognize most of the titles and have heard good things; definitely seems like a good place to start.


I'm reading Once in a Great City now and it's fantastic.

You might be interested in this book:

>Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity--in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

>He advocates two major policy responses. The first is educational austerity. Government needs to sharply cut education funding to curb this wasteful rat race. The second is more vocational education, because practical skills are more socially valuable than teaching students how to outshine their peers.

This may not be what you're looking for but I'm a gearhead. I've read a number of pretty good books about the auto industry that center in and around Detroit:

1. Iacocca
   
   
2. The Delorean Story
   
   
3. Glory Days
   
   
4. All Corvettes Are Red
   

Super specific books like this one and the unofficial Pyrex one are awesome.

Have you considered reading Them: Adventures with Extremists? It's a great read. From the author's description:

> A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room.

We have no idea. No experts can predict the future. By all accounts it will be better than it once was but there are just too many variables to account for in order to give an accurate prediction.

Here's a book that talks about predictions and how they're silly. It's a really good read. http://www.amazon.com/Future-Babble-Pundits-Hedgehogs-Foxes/dp/0452297575

I feel like this statement should have a question mark at the end of it.

Fundamental analysis isn't some dark art. It's fucking arithmetic.

Read this book and this book It should take you less than a month to read both.

https://www.amazon.com/Arsenal-Democracy-Detroit-Quest-America/dp/0547719280

Yeah lots of people do not know this about Detroit

If you ever get a chance, read One Summer by Bill Bryson, it takes a look at all the goings on in America during the summer of 1927. There are a lot of things that shaped this country highlighted, but the Ford $5 a day wage was part of it. At the time Ford had a 370% turnover rate and the $5 was an effort to keep employees on the lines as opposed to walking off when they got fed up.

Not sure what the laws are for mailing beer, but a growler from Kuhnhenns Brewery is never a bad gift. Maybe a book from Detroit journalist Charlie LeDuff?

On the history of Jewish Detroit see:

Jewish Detroit (MI) (Images of America) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738519960/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_h6Q2Db94ZFG7P

Also:

The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning 1762-1914
https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Detroit-Beginning-1762-1914/dp/0814318088

Next book will be Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler. If you finish that, we may also discuss Philip K Dick's Ubik

We will meet on 8/8 at M-Brew at 7pm!

The Media Monopoly

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z5HYQBJ

If you like this kind of stuff, I recommend Sarah Jo Peterson's book on the Willow Run plant during World War II near Ypsi, Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run.

Of course someone from Grosse Pointe has a hard time understanding the facts of structural inequality and the poverty trap. You don't care about poverty, why would you learn how it works?

Do some homework. You can start with this book. Read about structural inequality, poverty, and economic immobility in the U.S. It might help you actually begin to understand how poverty functions.

It isn't your fault you were born privileged, it is your parents'.