Detroitland: A Collection Of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, And History Makers From Detroit'S Past (Painted Turtle Press),New

Detroitland: A Collection Of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, And History Makers From Detroit'S Past (Painted Turtle Press),New

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Gold Award/Regional, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year AwardsIn Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past, prolific local historian and journalist Richard Bak has assembled many of his awardwinning historical features, all originally written for such periodicals as Hour Detroit, Detroit Monthly, and Michigan History and now updated and expanded for this collection. In twentyseven chapters that cover roughly a century of Detroit's rich and colorful history, Bak relives the scandals, mysteries, catastrophes, triumphs, and celebrations that have rocked Detroit. He also introduces readers to the heroes, criminals, stars, and regular people who lived through them, or in some cases, set them in motion.Detroitland contains the stories behind familiar names like Frank Murphy, the infamous Purple Gang, the Lone Ranger, 'Potato Patch' Pingree, and Charles Lindbergh. Yet Bak also reveals lesserknown episodes in Detroit's history, like the ambitious International Exposition & Fair of 1889; the killer heat wave of 1936, with five straight days of hundreddegree temperatures; and the attempted aroundtheworld flight of Ed Schlee and Billy Brock in the Pride of Detroit in 1927. He introduces readers to littleknown and unique Detroit characters, like the fierce Black Legion gang that was Detroit's own version of the Ku Klux Klan; Johnny Miler, the man who walloped Joe Louis in the Brown Bomber's firstever amateur fight; patrolman Ben Turpin, the terror of Black Bottom criminals; Sophie Lyons, legendary 'Queen of the Underworld' and Detroit philanthropist; and Shorty Long, Brenda Holloway, the Velvelettes, and other forgotten Motown artists of the '60s.Told in Bak's eminently readable style, the historical essays in Detroitland will prove hard to put down for anyone interested in Detroit's fascinating past.

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