Teardown : memoir of a vanishing city /
After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one o...
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Berkeley :
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Summer 2009; Part One; 1 Pink Houses and Panhandlers; 2 Bottom-Feeders; 3 Bourgeois Homeowners; 4 Virtual Vehicle City; 5 Bad Reputation; 6 The Road to Prosperity; 7 Bar Logic; 8 Downward Mobility; 9 Black and White; 10 The Forest Primeval; 11 The Naked Truth; 12 The Toughest Job in Politics; 13 Urban Homesteaders; Part Two; 14 Quitters Never Win; 15 Burning Down the House; 16 Emotional Rescue; 17 Get Real; 18 Living Large; 19 Fading Murals; 20 Gun Club; 21 Bargaining with God; 22 Psycho Killer; Part Three; 23 Winter Wonderland.
- 24 Home on the Range25 California Dreamin'; 26 Thankless Task; 27 Joy to the World; Epilogue: Summer 2012; Updates; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
