In the audio version Martin uses various speech styles, including both educated and inner city styles. The audiobook version uses reader Eric Martin. James Sullivan of the Boston Globe stated 'Like listening to him hold court in a corner bar, the book scuttles from one grueling episode to the next, both personal and professional.' Duff includes stories about his own family life. His discussion of Detroit politics includes interactions with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and political figures including Adolph Mongo and Monica Conyers. His discussion of the crime issue includes interviews with police officers, and there is also a segment about firefighters combating arsonists. The book material originates from news stories LeDuff, a journalist, had covered for The Detroit News. In March 2008 he was living in Los Angeles with his family when he decided to move back to Detroit. LeDuff had grown up in the Detroit suburbs ( Westland/ Livonia), left and become a journalist, working for The New York Times for a decade and winning a Pulitzer Prize while there. In the book LeDuff discusses the present state of Detroit and its economic, social, crime, and political issues.

Book by Charlie LeDuff Detroit: An American Autopsyĭetroit: An American Autopsy is a 2013 book by Charlie LeDuff, published by Penguin Books.

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