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Teardown : memoir of a vanishing city /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, Gordon, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520955374
9780520955370
1299557279
9781299557277