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Excerpt from Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark Binelli, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark Binelli

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli
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  • Nov 13, 2012, 336 pages
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  • Nov 2013, 336 pages
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‡Surprisingly, Detroit city officials managed to successfully rebrand the night before Halloween "Angel's Night" in 1995. Thousands of volunteers enlist each year to help patrol their neighborhoods during the last days of October severely curbing the outbreaks of arson.

Excerpted from Detroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark Binelli. Copyright © 2012 by Mark Binelli. Excerpted by permission of Metropolitan Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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