Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff audiobook

Detroit: An American Autopsy: An American Autopsy

By Charlie LeDuff
Read by Eric Martin

Highbridge Audio, HighBridge 9781594205347

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: Library CD
  • 2 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781665159029

  • ISBN: 9781665159036

Runtime: 7.31 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/History
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

A 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for Current Interest

A 2013 New York Times Editor’s Choice

A Los Angeles Times bestseller

A Huffington Post Best Book of 2013

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award, May 2013

A Publishers Weekly bestseller

A 2013 Library Journal Best Audiobook for Nonfiction

An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2013

In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city. In doing so, he uncovers the deeply human drama of a city filled with some of the strongest—and strangest—people our country has to offer.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Charlie LeDuff is...a brilliant writer. Detroit is full of righteous anger and heartbreaking details. It’s also funny as hell. Hunter S. Thompson would’ve loved every page of this book.” —Eric Schlosser, New York Times bestselling author
“LeDuff has done his best, and his book is better than good.” —New York Times Book Review
“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff’s amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths…A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff’s.” —Wall Street Journal
“Charlie LeDuff is a remarkable journalist, and this book is filled with incredible writing as he witnesses his home city crumble through neglect and corruption.” —Huffington Post
“What to do when you’re a reporter and your native city is rotting away? If you’re LeDuff, you leave the New York Times and head into the wreckage to ride with firemen, hang with the corrupt pols, and retrace your own family’s sad steps through drugs. Others have written well about the city, but none with the visceral anger, the hair-tearing frustration, and the hungry humanity of LeDuff.” —Newsweek
“Powerful and immensely enjoyable…With the same critical eye he uses on others, LeDuff entwines his personal life into the narrative, effectively breaking down any ‘us vs. them’ posturing. Eric Martin’s narration is exactly right, reflecting all of LeDuff’s sincerity, outrage, and despair…This masterly snapshot of a city in ruins translates superbly to the spoken word.” —Library Journal (starred audio review)
“Pultizer Prize-winning journalist LeDuff delivers an edgy portrait of the decline, destruction, and possible redemption of his hometown…LeDuff writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself—and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness…Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski.” —Kirkus Reviews
“You wouldn’t think a book about the stinking decay of the American dream could be this engaging, this irreverent, this laugh-at-loud funny. But not everyone can write like Charlie LeDuff. I’m tempted to say he’s the writer for our desperate times the way Steinbeck and Orwell were for other people’s desperate times, except he’s such an original he’s like no one but himself.” —Alexandra Fuller, author of Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
“Eric Martin hits all the right notes in his narration of journalist Charlie LeDuff’s chronicle of the problems that plague his hometown, the once flourishing and now foundering Detroit. The author’s edgy tone is tough and uncompromising, befitting the harsh realities facing those who remain in the troubled city. Martin’s narration mirrors LeDuff’s writing as he voices the poverty, corruption, and crime of the city as well as the brash and irreverent personality of the author himself. Both author and narrator are by turns incredulous, despairing, and hopeful, though, as LeDuff concedes, hope can be hard to come by nowadays in Detroit. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile

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Author

Author Bio: Charlie LeDuff

Author Bio: Charlie LeDuff

Charlie LeDuff was a staff writer at the New York Times and a reporter at the Detroit News before he became a journalist for Detroit’s FOX2 News. He contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series and has received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City. He is the author of US Guys and Work and Other Sins.

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Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 7.31
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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