Detroit, Death City

Detroit, Death CityIt's a throwaway city for a throwaway society, a place where the American dream came to die. No other U.S. metropolis has suffered a decline as steep as Detroit's. From "the arsenal of democracy" during World War II to a blue-collar Shangri-la in the 1950s and 1960s--where a man could go straight from high school to the factory floor and earn enough money to buy a house and a car and support his family for the rest of his life--to a global symbol for what happens whe...