In advance of a book reading and Q-and-A session Maraniss is slated to participate in from 7 to 9 p.m. Johnson, Marvin Gaye, Alex Karras and various mobsters, cops, pimps, prostitutes and piano salesmen intersected or overlapped with the creation of Ford’s iconic Mustang and a bid for the 1968 Olympics. Franklin (Aretha’s father), Walter Reuther, Lee Iacocca, George Romney, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Martha Reeves, John F. If not always interwoven, the lives of Berry Gordy Jr., Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Henry Ford II, the Rev. He found that causes had been identified and consequences predicted in February 1963 by sociologists at Wayne State University. It follows Maraniss’ biographies of Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente, his histories of the Vietnam War and the 1960 Rome Olympics and five other books he has authored or co-authored since 1995.ĭuring more than three years of research and writing, Maraniss focused on the rich, revelatory events that occurred in Detroit from late 1962 through early 1964 - ostensibly a heyday for music, manufacturing, labor and civil rights.Īs Maraniss discovered, disaster and decline weren’t far over the horizon. “Once in a Great City/A Detroit Story” was published in September.
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