  Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2132 Registered: 09-2003 |
Here are the first returns of our forum poll of the Best Detroit [related] books ever written. Please Click Here to cast your votes! We need more. CLICK HERE to buy the books through Amazon and benefit DetroitYES at the same time. Weighted Scoring Methodology. Up to ten works may be cited. First choice = 100, 2nd = 80, 3rd = 64, etc. [the value of each choice is 80% of the one above it. 931 The Origins of the Urban Crisis:Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Thomas Sugrue 260 Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenidies) 221 The Detroit Almanac - Detroit Free Press 221 Working Detroit 208 From Soupy to Nutz 195 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 151 American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005 141 Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir 128 AIA Guide to Detroit 117 Grit, Noise, Revolution 101 Art In The Stations: The Detroit People Mover 100 American Odyssey 100 City Primieval by Elmore Leonard 100 History of Detroit and Michigan and Wayne County 100 Kick Out The Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor--1963-1980 100 Metro Detroit Boxing 100 The Final Season: Fathers, Sons and One Last Season In A Classic American Ballpark by Tom Stanton 100 Whiskey River 97 The Detroit Artists Market, 1932-1982 a Partnership in Creativity 92 Art in Detroit Public Places 89 Virgin Suicides 80 Art Deco in Detroit 80 Motown 80 The Purple Gang - Kavieff 66 Detroit: Then and Now 64 Detroit's Downtown Movie Palaces 64 Granite Harbor 64 Jitterbug 64 The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young 64 The Way I Am 64 The Way It Was: Glimpses of Detroit's History Through the Pages of Hour Magazine 51 Bob-Lo: An Island in Troubled Waters 51 Deep Summer 51 Dennis Coffey 51 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin) 41 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay 41 Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young 41 Sirens of Chrome: The Enduring Allure of Auto Show Models 41 Sugartown 41 Talking Shops 41 The Buildings of Detroit: A History (W. Hawkins Ferry) 33 Before the Ghetto 26 Devil's Night (Ze'ev Chafets ) 26 Hard Stuff 26 The Changing Face of Inequality 26 WestSiders:Remembering Detroit's old westside, 1920-1950 : a pictorial history of the westsiders 21 Calico Palace 21 Dancing in the Street 21 Farmers Detroit HIstory 17 From the Canon's mouth: The civil war letters of Alpheus Williams 17 Frontier Metropolis 17 Up from the Streets: Detroit Art from the Duffy Warehouse Collection 14 Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 14 Poems of Jim Gustafson 14 YBI The Autobiography of Butch Jones (a piece of tripe, but entertaining) |
