Detroit's Coming of Age, 1873 to 1973Detroit's Coming of Age is a different kind of history. It's a history written by a dramatist-reporter who knows that it is wonderful, various, cantankerous, adventurous people who make news-and the same people who give Detroit its identity. It's the baseball players and the cops and the politicians and the newspaper reporters who really make Detroit come alive this year or any year in our history. The battles and embarrassments and love stories that make up our Detroit tradition are all in this book. They are not stories that many present-day Detroiters know. But they are stories that every Detroiter will want to read. |
Contents
Prelude to a Centennial | 1 |
General Grant Remembers | 6 |
Year of a Hundred Years | 12 |
Copyright | |
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