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Name: Detroit City Is the Place to Be
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
Author: Mark Binelli
ISBN: 9780805092295

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli

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First Published:
Nov 13, 2012, 336 pages

Paperback:
Nov 2013, 336 pages

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- History, Current Affairs and Religion
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
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‡Surprisingly, Detroit city officials managed to successfully rebrand the night before Halloween "Angel's Night" in 1995. Thousands of volunteers enlist each year to help patrol their neighborhoods during the last days of October severely curbing the outbreaks of arson.

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