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An explosive exposé of America’s lost
prosperity—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff
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. |
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"Except for a few drinks, nothing is free in Charlie LeDuff's blunt and
touching Work and Other Sins. The laughter and wisdom are hard won,
the lessons are often painful... the sad tales and wit from the bar rail are
endless and timeless." --The New York Times Book Review
Charlie LeDuff is that rare breed of news reporter—one who can cover
hard-to-get-at stories in a unique and deeply personal style. In Work and
Other Sins, he gives his incomparable take on New York City and its
denizens—the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the
lonesome, and the wise. Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a
firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their
Coney Island bar, LeDuff takes the reader into the lives of his subjects to
explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches
of the globe. The result is an at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails,
contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey-tinged, and utterly unique vision of
life in the Big Apple. |
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“A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of
America that rarely see print.”—Entertainment Weekly
Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture
the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his
odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded
homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a racetrack in Miami to
a pair of lovers at a gay rodeo. With audacity, humor, and no small amount
of physical pain, he captures a broad diversity of voices as they wrestle
with an America they love but increasingly fail to understand. |
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