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Detroit History Book

Posted in History of Detroit on August 23rd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

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Echoes of Detroit
A 300 Year History

by Irwin J. Cohen
ISBN 0967757002
140 pages
8.5 x 11 paperback
$12.95 USD
This history of Detroit tells the story of the Motor City in engaging prose and over 150 vintage photos of Detroit. From the early Detroit history of its birth as a trading post for the French in 1701, through the Roaring Twenties, the industrial boom during and following World War II, the decline in the 1970s, the book ends with gradual birth of a new era of hope in the twenty-first century. Over 100 Detroit historic photos tell the story in pictures.
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