Teardown: memoir of a vanishing city
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1. Verfasser: Young, Gordon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press 2013
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After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculato
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Summer 2009; Part One; 1 Pink Houses and Panhandlers; 2 Bottom-Feeders; 3 Bourgeois Homeowners; 4 Virtual Vehicle City; 5 Bad Reputation; 6 The Road to Prosperity; 7 Bar Logic; 8 Downward Mobility; 9 Black and White; 10 The Forest Primeval; 11 The Naked Truth; 12 The Toughest Job in Politics; 13 Urban Homesteaders; Part Two; 14 Quitters Never Win; 15 Burning Down the House; 16 Emotional Rescue; 17 Get Real; 18 Living Large; 19 Fading Murals; 20 Gun Club; 21 Bargaining with God; 22 Psycho Killer; Part Three; 23 Winter Wonderland
24 Home on the Range25 California Dreamin'; 26 Thankless Task; 27 Joy to the World; Epilogue: Summer 2012; Updates; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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ISBN:0520270525
0520955374
1299557279
9780520270527
9780520955370
9781299557277

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