商品簡介
Celebrating the glory days of the city, this collection offers feature-length historical articles by the author that have appeared in periodicals such as Detroit Monthly, Hour Detroit, Michigan History, and the Sunday magazine section of the Detroit News; most of the articles have been updated and expanded. Each chapter covers a personality, event, or era during 100 years of Detroit history, profiling human interest stories as well as politicians, criminals, sports figures, and Motown musicians. The not-quite-coffee-table (7x10") book includes b&w historical photos. Bak has written other books on Detroit history. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard Bak is the author of nearly thirty books, including Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground (Wayne State University Press, 2010). He has received four ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, a pair of regional Emmys, the Stuart and Vernice Gross Prize for Literature, and many feature-writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.
