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Motor City Blue

Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453220488
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Blue written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster’s missing adopted daughter Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He’s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Walker’s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who’s been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker’s help. But the trail has gone cold—the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction will find Estleman’s lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Motor City Green

Author : Joseph S. Cialdella
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987023
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Green written by Joseph S. Cialdella and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.

Motor City

Author : Bill Morris
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Motor City written by Bill Morris and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional account of the automobile industry and Detroit in the early 1950s.

Motor City Dream Garages

Author : Don Sherman, Rex Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610590907
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Dream Garages written by Don Sherman, Rex Roy and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There isn't another place in the world that can match Detroit's automotive history. For nearly a century, what was conceived, designed, produced, and marketed from this town ruled the roads. So it only stands to reason that the Motor City is likely to host some of the country's greatest collector garages. From the personal home of the man who put America on wheels to the posh residences of current automotive icons such as Bob Lutz, Motor City Dream Garages takes readers on a guided tour of 20-plus of Motown's most interesting garages. Going beyond even these fantastic garagemahals, this book also takes readers inside select company garages for exclusive looks at the unique and important collections amassed by companies such as General Motors and Roush Industries (parent company to Roush Racing, owned by Jack Roush). If you like both garages and the beautiful machines within, this book is for you!

Motor City Mafia

Author : Scott M. Burnstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143963310X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Mafia written by Scott M. Burnstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its inception in the early part of the 20th century, through the years when the iconic Purple Gang ruled the city's streets during Prohibition, through the 1930s and the formation of the local Italian mafia, and the Detroit crime family's glory days in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, all the way to the downfall of the area's mob reign in the 1980s and 1990s.

Motor City Burning

Author : Bill Morris
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781605985732
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Burning written by Bill Morris and published by Pegasus Crime. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Bledsoe, only in his twenties, is totally burned out. After leaving behind a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Detroit to try to change the world, Willie quickly grows disenchanted and returns home to Alabama to try to come to grips about his time in the cultural whirlwind. But the surprise return of his Vietnam veteran brother in the spring of 1967 gives him a chance to drive a load of stolen guns back up to the Motor City, which would give him enough money to jump-start his dream of moving to New York. There, on the opening day of the 1968 baseball season—postponed two days in deference to the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.—Willie learns some terrifying news: the Detroit police are still investigating the last unsolved murder from the bloody, apocalyptic race riot of the previous summer, and a Detroit cop named Frank Doyle will not rest until the case is solved. And Willie is his prime suspect. Bill Morris' rich and thrilling new novel sets Doyle's hunt against the tumultuous history of one of America's most fascinating cities, as Doyle and Willie struggle with disillusionment, revenge, and forgiveness—and the realization that justice is rarely attainable, and rarely just.

Detroit

Author : David Lee Poremba
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614024
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Detroit written by David Lee Poremba and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 24, 1701, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac stood in the heart of the wilderness on a bluff overlooking the Detroit River and claimed this frontier in the name of Louis XIV; thus began the story of Detroit, a city marked by pioneering spirits, industrial acumen, and uncommon durability. Over the course of its 300-year history, Detroit has been sculpted into a city unique in the American experience by its extraordinary mixture of diverse cultures: American Indian, French, British, American colonial, and a variety of immigrant newcomers. Detroit: A Motor City History documents the major events that shaped this once-small French fur-trading outpost across three centuries of conflict and prosperity. Through informative text and a variety of imagery, readers experience firsthand the struggles of the nascent village against raiding Indian tribes and the incessant political and military tug of war between the colonial French and English, and then American interests. Like many other major cities across the United States, Detroit played a pivotal role in establishing the country's economic and industrial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, serving as a center for its well-known civilian and military mass-production resources. This visual history provides insight into Detroit's rapid evolution from a hamlet into a metropolis against a backdrop of important community and national affairs: the decimating fire of 1805, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and both world wars.

Motor City Barn Finds

Author : Tom Cotter
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760352445
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Barn Finds written by Tom Cotter and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit: Motor City... and the poster child for urban blight and dysfunction. This presented challenges and opportunities for Cotter, as he trolled the historic city looking for lost automobile gems. Here he tells the story of these "barn finds" and shares anecdotes of the cars and his journey.

Motor City Music

Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190882107
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Music written by Mark Slobin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the chorus.

Heart Soul Detroit

Author : Jenny Risher
Publisher : Momentum Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781938018008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Heart Soul Detroit written by Jenny Risher and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Motor City Underground : Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1973

Author : Cary Loren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983587057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Underground : Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1973 written by Cary Loren and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Motor City Shakedown

Author : D. E. Johnson
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781250065605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Shakedown written by D. E. Johnson and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson's friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will's hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for nothing except revenge against the people who contributed to Wesley's murder—first among them crime boss Vito Adamo. When Will stumbles upon the bloody body of Adamo's driver, he knows he'll be a suspect, particularly since he was spotted outside the dead man's apartment that same night. He sets out to find the killer, and the trail leads him to a vast conspiracy in an underworld populated by gangsters, union organizers, crooked cops, and lawyers. Worse, it places him directly in the middle of Detroit's first mob war. The Teamsters want a piece of Will's father's car company, Detroit Electric, and the Gianolla gang is there to be sure they get it. To save their families, Will and his ex-fiancée Elizabeth Hume enlist the help of Detroit Police Detective Riordan, the teenage members of what will one day be known as the Purple Gang, and Vito Adamo himself. They careen from one danger to the next, surviving shootouts, kidnappings, and police brutality, while barreling toward a devastating climax readers won't soon forget.

Motor City Murder

Author : Megan Clare Johnson
Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781601459107
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Murder written by Megan Clare Johnson and published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called back to Detroit to track down her mother's murderer, Detective Deanna Dopp uncovers long-kept secrets, a hidden illegitimate child, and political corruption in the racially tense city that leads straight to City Hall and the powerful Mayor Hank Jenkins.

Classic Muscle

Author : Mike Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581592382
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Classic Muscle written by Mike Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Motor City Muscle

Author : Mike Mueller
Publisher : MotorBooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760339449
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Muscle written by Mike Mueller and published by MotorBooks International. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muscle cars all but disappeared by 1974, but by the 1990s, thanks to improved engine technology, they were back with a vengeance. This book traces the full history right up to today's new Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger.

Motor City Muscle

Author : Stan Fischler
Publisher : Warwick Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Muscle written by Stan Fischler and published by Warwick Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The names still have a clarion call, ringing true like cathedral bells -- Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, "Terrible" Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel, Red Kelly -- a great cast of tough, talented hockey players. After all, how many teams can claim to have finished first place six seasons in a row?

Motor City Champs

Author : Scott Ferkovich
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666598
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Motor City Champs written by Scott Ferkovich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit Tigers team, steered by player-manager Mickey Cochrane, to inject new pride into the Detroit psyche. It was a cast of colorful characters, with such nicknames as Schoolboy, Goose, Hammerin' Hank and Little Tommy. Over two seasons in 1934 and 1935, the team powered its way to the top of the baseball world, becoming a symbol of a resurgent metropolis and winning the first-ever Tigers championship. This exhaustively researched account provides an in-depth look into a remarkable period in baseball history.