Politician Fondles Writer in Grim Detroit Autopsy: Books
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Reporting on city politics isn’t supposed to include having a city councilwoman squeeze one’s nether parts.
After a few pages of Charlie LeDuff’s “Detroit: An American Autopsy,” you get used to surprises. It’s a hard-eyed look at some of the recent villains and victims of a city battered for half a century by political corruption, racial strife and industrial collapse. Even the light moments have a dark side.