Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City

by Gordon Young

Book Overview

After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world's highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270525
• ISBN13: 9780520270527
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"