![]() All of this promise was buoyed by a rising economic tide that promised to lift all boats.ĭetroit in the early 1960s (the book chronicles the months from October of 1962 to May of 1964) boasted some of the nation’s most dynamic personalities. ![]() Ford Motor Company was preparing to roll out its newest car, the Mustang, the advent of Motown records was underway, the city boasted an apparently thriving working class, its dynamic young Mayor, Jerome Cavanagh, was a close ally of Kennedy and a supporter of the civil rights movement as it reached its apex. The Detroit that Kennedy saw was at a peak, a city of 1.7 million, and experiencing an astonishing season of creativity and possibility. Kennedy, who won Michigan electoral votes in 1960 with an overwhelming margin in Detroit, visited the city just before the Cuban Missile crisis burst. ![]() October of 1962 was a time of great promise for Detroit and the nation as a whole. David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize winner and among the most accomplished writers of non-fiction in the United States, begins his Detroit story a few years before that, in the city in which he was born and lived his first six years. The enduring images of Detroit, Michigan, from the 1960s are those of the major riot that erupted in that epicenter of the industrial Midwest in the summer of 1967. ![]()
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