Hidden History of Detroit

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Abandoned houses, all-night dance parties, bicycle culture, corrupt politicians, decrepit streets illegal, taverns and high-profile feuds over public artÃ1all before the end of the l800s Discover the Motor City before the motor: a muddy port town lull of grogshops, horse races, haphazard cemeteries and enterprising bootstrappers from ail over the world. Meet the argumentative French fugitive who founded the city, the tobacco: magnate who haunts his shuttered factory, the gambler prankster millionaire who built a monument to himself, the governor who brought his scholarly library with him on canoe expeditions and the historians who helped create the story of Detroit as we know it: one-of the oldest, rowdiest and most enigmatic cities in the Midwest. Book jacket.