![]() A narrator, his voice confidently embracing the scene: Now we’re from America. The giant sculpture The Spirit of Detroit. The Diego Rivera mural "Detroit Industry." Ice skaters gliding, runners in hooded sweatshirts pounding onward, determined to keep going. ![]() World-class architecture. The Joe Louis Fist. Then I looked up at the screen to see a green freeway sign that said DETROIT. A series of images flashed by in rhythm to a pulsing sound track. Wintry landscape. At halftime, with the Green Bay Packers on their way to victory, I was caught in the swirl of emotions of an anxious fan and barely paying attention to the studio commentary and commercials. In a sense this book had been in the works since the summer of 1949, when I was born at Women’s Hospital in Detroit, but the inspiration came on Super Bowl Sunday in early February 2011 as I watched the title game at a bar in midtown Manhattan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster. This excerpt is from the opening author’s note of David Maraniss’ “Once in a Great City,” the acclaimed author-journalist’s book about a dramatic time in Detroit’s tumultuous history: fall 1962 to spring 1964. ![]()
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