Summary of Charlie LeDuff's Detroit

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#1 I pulled into the station, and the needle was on E, which was a mistake. In Detroit, you don’t get your gas on the east side, not even at high noon. Because the east side of Motown is Dodge City: sel-awless and crazy.

#2 I spent my last ten dollars on gas. I was approached by two men in Arab dress who asked me what I was doing in Detroit. I didn’t answer them, but pointed my gun at them instead.

#3 The Free Press received a cache of text messages that showed that Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was a criminal and a pimp. The news cemented the News’s lowly stepbrother status with the rival Free Press.

#4 My career with the New York Times died in the mountains of Vermont. I was on a story and did not receive the prior evening’s voice mail until early in the morning when I arrived at the Burlington airport. The message was hysterical: Amy’s in the hospital. She went into early labor. Where are you

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669385394

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I pulled into the station, and the needle was on E, which was a mistake. In Detroit, you don’t get your gas on the east side, not even at high noon. Because the east side of Motown is Dodge City: sel-awless and crazy.

#2

I spent my last ten dollars on gas. I was approached by two men in Arab dress who asked me what I was doing in Detroit. I didn’t answer them, but pointed my gun at them instead.

#3

The Free Press received a cache of text messages that showed that Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was a criminal and a pimp. The news cemented the News’s lowly stepbrother status with the rival Free Press.

#4

My career with the New York Times died in the mountains of Vermont. I was on a story and did not receive the prior evening’s voice mail until early in the morning when I arrived at the Burlington airport. The message was hysterical: Amy’s in the hospital. She went into early labor. Where are you.

#5

I grew bored with Los Angeles. I no longer belonged since I was no longer a writer. I had become a stay-at-home dad, isolated in my Hollywood bungalow with a howling baby and dirty diapers. I realized how cut-off and disconnected we were.

#6

I was a reporter, and I was going to Detroit to cover the decline of the Great Industrial American City. I made myself a promise that I would build a castle of words so high on the banks of the Detroit River that they couldn’t help but see it from Times Square.

#7

I began work at the Detroit News in March 2008. The newspaper was in a lower ring of hell, and the television images of Kilpatrick were dark and murky since the sets were failing from continual use. I needed