[okie01]

Evidently, the book is a rather complete and accurate vivisection of what Detroit has become.

Yet, oddly, I didn't see a single word about why.

Isn't that an issue that needs illumination, as well? All this fascination with the Ruin that is Detroit today. Yet, no curiosity about how it came to be?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cousins on my dad's side of the family sold their homes and moved out in the mid 60s while a home could still be marketable. They'd worked for Ford on the line and in the office for decades.

[lowbridge]

The article says that the book author is a leftist liberal. Perhaps he conveniently left out of his book how leftist liberal policies played a huge part in destroying Detroit and preventing it from being improved.

[P.O.E.]

Yet, oddly, I didn't see a single word about why

For one thing (among several), the unions ate the work ethic out of too many of the workers.

[iopscusa]

Read the History of Race Riots in Detroit....1863, 1945 and 1967. The problem was not Unions and it was not necessarily Democrats, see Pittsburgh, Seattle, Portland, etc. Guess the real cause, IOWs get a clue!

[Road Glide]

“Yet, oddly, I didn’t see a single word about why.
Isn’t that an issue that needs illumination, as well? All this fascination with the Ruin that is Detroit today. Yet, no curiosity about how it came to be? “

It be racis’ to talk ‘bout it...