The Fall of Detroit

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Dmitry Nazarov. The Fall of Detroit

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Henry Ford

Chapter 2. William Durant

Chapter 3. Walter Chrysler

Chapter 4. Detroit in 1920s and 1930s

Chapter 5. Hunger March

Chapter 6. World War II

Chapter 7. The fat 1950s

Chapter 8. UAW

Chapter 9. Detroit Riot

Chapter 10. Germans and Japanese

Chapter 11. The Oil Crisis and UAW

Chapter 12. Vincent Chin

Chapter 13. Defeat

Afterword

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It’s impossible to imagine our modern world without cars.

Despite the fact that a car, in general, is just a pile of metal and a set of parts, no one thinks of it like that.

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But GM still exists today, it had become the second pivotal part, in the foundation of Detroit’s future. And so it appears on our list here.

While Durant and Chevrole were tinkering their products in garages, in 1911, some Walter Percy came to Buick, and his surname would become a household name. Chrysler. He came to work as a production manager for Buick cars.

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