My Favorites Are Stevie Wonder And Marvin

I Look For Two Things When I Am About To Launch Into A Book. First, There Has To Be A Dramatic Arc To The Story Itself That Will Carry Me, And The Reader, From Beginning To End. Second, The Story Has To Weave Through Larger Themes That Can Illuminate The World Of The Subject.

And All Of The Big Shots Of The Car Industry Are There, Strutting Their Stuff. And That Year, They're Feeling Especially Good Because Cars Were Selling More Than Ever Before.

Detroit Was An Exaggeration Of What Was Going On Across The Country. You Could See The Divisions, Even Within The Civil Rights Movement Of That Period. At The Same Time That Martin Luther King Was Talking About His Dream, Malcolm X Gave His Most Famous Address In Detroit During That Same Period, "the Message To The Grass Roots," Dismissing The Notion Of Integration.

There Was A Precarious Balance During Those Crucial Months Between Composition And Decomposition - What The World Gained And What A Great City Lost. Even Then, Some Part Of Detroit Was Dying, And That Is Where The Story Begins.

So, I Mean, There's Still Vast Swaths Of The City That Are Suffering From A Lack Of Jobs And Poor Housing And Poor Public Schools, But They Are Building Momentum - You Know, Techies, Foodies, Artists, Musicians, All Coming To Detroit. So There Is This Vibrancy. You See It In The Newspapers Every Day - Some Story About The New Detroit.