detroit, 1967. a city in flames. >> a lot of the smoke was right up in here on 12th street, which is what it was called then. soledad: disturbances began on 12th street, since renamed rosa parks boulevard. they started spotaneously after a routine police raid on an illegal bar, or what locals called, a blind pig. dan mckane was a young street cop in detroit's tactical mobe unit. soledad: how would you have described the detroit police department in 1967? dan: well, it was majority white male. soledad: loretta holmes was in that blind pig that night, to welcome back soldiers coming home from vietnam. suddenly, police burst in. loretta: they took us downstairs, to about four -- i' say three or four paddy wagons. and oh, my god. it was a million people out there. it was like, somebody got on a bullhorn and said, come to 12th and clairmount. soledad: the angry crowd outside exploded into five days of full out violence. in the years that followed, detroit fell on hard times. the auto industry was hit by

which separates east detroit from west detroit. anybody i -- everybody identifies themselves as east detroit or west detroit. go down a mile and there is motown. this row, series of houses that is now a museum. i did most of the research. going there, interview, doing a lot of archival research. all my books i say they have four legs to a table. one leg is the observation of being there, understanding the cultural geography of a place. archivald leg is the research, find a contemporaneous documents. the third leg is the interviews. and i found as many of the people that i could from that era. i had to travel other places as well. barry gordy is in a mansion in bel air in los angeles. i went to see him and a lot of other people around the country. the fourth leg is looking for what is not there. there is always a conventional wisdom about something, trying to find other ways to explore the reality. >> interesting interview that you had to you mentioned very gor -- barry gordy. what did you learn? probably 80 83, four by now. he was

>> detroit, under municipal bankruptcy detroit cannotting forced to sell off assets. i think the wall street creditors, the bond companies have concerns about their treatment relative to other creditors who have similar claim to being repaid. that's a lot of what the wrangling going on in court is about. >> maybe forced was a bad word, but they look at the pile of assets detroit owns and they say hey there is money in those assets, and you say you can't afford to pay us. >> onus. >> yes, there is this wall street-main street narrative used to characterize the bankruptcy controversy, but the wall street creditors are not saying take money away from pensioners and give it to us, they're saying you have not done enough. are you sure you can't raise taxes a little bit, and that art, it might be a good idea to sell off some of the art and pay us and give us a higher rate of recovery. it's not something that i think myself would lead to a better future for detroit, but this is a problem with bankruptcy. there are certain legal requirements that have to be wit with respected

detroit? >> it will turn around the city of detroit. >> the motor city. this is will we do. john: what's up with detroit? can this happen to your town? that's our showonight. ♪ >> and now john stossel. ♪ john detroit was once the richest city in america. i was three years old and. that was the 1950's. now it's the biggest u.s. city ever to declare bankruptcy. so what happened? our guests tonight have some clues. first, fox news reporter works in detroit and jt wrote, detroit, an american autopsy. an autopsy, one examines the dead body and tries to find out what killed him. detroit isn't that exactly. what killed the trust? >> wld kill the charge, racial conflict of detroit. slav kill detroit. corruption children. it seems like that is what has become the american way because detroit is notlone. what is baltimore going to do, atlanta, l.a. john: detroit is and worse shape. rse politicians, more unions. the automaker collapsed. it was in the politicians' fault. it was just the big three crashed.

in detroit, people are always apologizing for detroit. it was found that to be a detriment to the city. always thought as chicago, there are very powerful city. that is finally changing. and very glad of that because i really thought over my course of living here, it's really hard the city a lot. a lack of civic pride. david: i think the keywords, i really feel that. i felt that this week over the last six months and years stronger than ever before. ... ... [applause] thank you everyone for today, very some insightful commented it's great to have these gentlemen with us and great to have all of you. books will be on the first floor outside of the gift shop, you can purchase a book there and a whole bunch of other things and i know david will be happy to personalize that for you. thanks again. [applause] >> thank you, it was great. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that wrapped up a look at programs from archives, you can watch any of these programs or any of his other appearances on book tv or c-span by going to our a

obviously had ties to detroit and works in detroit and has initiatives in the city of detroit and also has a large film, called "just films." they were a major financier of the film. pbs was our second biggest funder. the private family foundation and finance documentary fund kicked in a little bit of money and impact partners which is an equity organization. the collection of us together, they financed the film. no one had editorial control. that was one of the deal that's we had. we were able to raise the money without having to make promises to anybody which including pbs and including broadcaster. >> dave bling was mayor of detroit. what mayor is he? >> he's a clean mayor. he's an honest mayor. there's a history of corruption and all kinds of business with some of the city council and the mayors of detroit including kilpatrick who is now on trial. detroit is just come out of a feeling of sense of being empty handed and betrayed and tricked by their previous mayor. i think most detroiters will say kilpatrick tricked them. dave being the right answer to kwame. dave bling has the most

detroit.hat we're looking at here looks very much like an old-fashioned wagon. we just don't have a horse in front of it. the horses are sitting inside the vehicle. there is a motorized carriage, a horseless carriage. this was the first car to operate on the streets of detroit. charles brady king. -- henry ford -- king was the guy who designed the car and designed the engine that went inside of it. there was an unusual engine, a four-cylinder engine, went at the time people were using a double cylinder engine. so it was a very powerful vehicle. charles brady king and oliver martel, who helped him with the engine drove this thing in detroit. henry ford was there in a bicycle about 25 feet behind chasing them. starting in the 1870's and 1880's, people started understanding that you could take a steam engine and apply it to an automobile. eventually, he was used to do that. electric cars. existed before gasoline engines. but a gentleman from grand rapids, also here in michigan, developed a gasoli

are detroiters making a come back? ♪ all about detroit.e are focusing on the real challenge tonight. >> the future, and who is doing to benefit. our community always has opinions and also activity is already happening in detroit. how, there's a group that says wake up man. determines have been in charge for 50 years. and ten there's j.p. that says to get detroit back on its feet, we have to give money back. let's try that out. our community and you are the third host of the show, and we mean it. we read recall your tweets and facebook messages. they drive the discussion. so tonight, use of the #and join the conversation. he means it. many ways to be a part of our community. don't forget facebook, like us, send your ideas for stories that you think we should be covering. detroit hustles harder that's what residents are saying as they flip the city's negative narrative of bankruptcy crime and pose closures. juxtapose against the standard story of ruin, businesses are investing big in downtown detroit. but it might be the do-it-yourselfers th

how is it buying only products from detroit or farmers in detroit not helping detroit?in detroit. everyone here lives in detroit. >> if i ask the same question, i say i don't [ muted ]. i'm doing it well. i'm doing it in a place i love. and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a [ muted ], believes in it enough to be here. >> you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me it's just obvious. >> what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. >>> somewhere in this unassuming neighborhood, one can sit down for an excellent meal. but you won't find this place on yelp and unfortunately i cannot tell you where it is exactly. why not, you ask? it's not exactly a restaurant, you see. which means it's not strictly speaking legal. >> what is this place? >> pupusa house. i call it a pupusa house. >> it's a cultural thing. traditionally. they serve out of their houses. and it's just something that people bring over and they come. so this is

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and detroit, metro detroit. flint is back on metro detroit but there was a $7 million payment for the bonds. do the math. except detroit, on the credit to make the bond payment, is made home. it was a gamble. they -- nobody went to prison either. when is this? this was going out in america. we can come back. we need to find a reason to be. we are not bringing them back but don't put the white blue-collar down for voting for trump because he is not stupid. he doesn't really think the jobs are coming back to america. we all know they are not coming back. what he voted for was my brother just walked in. you know what i mean? you are not going to take what is left and ship it out. everyone will come here next year because this went ratty. and might go again. where have you been? do you really care? we are just montana. we are just tampa. looking at the history of this town might know something about your future. >> the vast majority of negroes and whites are shocked and outraged. pillage, looting, murder and arson h

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in detroit. thethe rebellion during 1960's -- before the rebellion, journalists looking at the detroit also thought there was something that sets the city apart. the national press raised -- to try to come calling in a model city for its progressive race relations. that assessment was based on the biracial coalition of liberals that throughout one mayor for targeting african-americans and his war on crime -- and floated in another mayor. , a city councilman at the time and a longtime activist, said wait a minute. warning the public, not to take too much and make too much of the quote, bright, attractive, well publicized face of the biracial liberal alliance with the new mayor. serious dangers he warned, lurked beneath the surface where they could not be readily seen. kind of like the other 9/10 of an iceberg. danger, the on one influence the raised expectations had on a generation whooung black activists supported -- whether they were actual participants or fellow travelers. the expectations i am

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how is it only buying my products from detroit or farmers in detroit, not helping detroit? everybody here lives in detroit. >> anthony: if i were asked the same question, i would say i don't -- know. i'm doing what i do well. i'm doing it in a place i love and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a -- about detroit, and believes in it enough to be here. >> chef craig: you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me, it was just obvious. >> announcer: what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. ♪ >> anthony: somewhere in this unassuming neighborhood, one can sit down for an excellent meal. but you won't find this place on yelp and, unfortunately, i cannot tell you where it is exactly. why not, you ask? it's not exactly a restaurant, you see, which means it's not, strictly speaking, legal. what is this place? >> george: papusa house, i call it the papusa house. i mean, like a pupuseria, i guess you could say. >> joe: it's a cultural

imagine you have the detroit river like this. detroit on top of that. ribbon farms stretched out on either end in long, thin sections. this allowed each family and farmer to have a little bit of land near the river, near the water. this would be used for watering your plants but also critically important for transport as well. the location itself is a very attractive spot for the french. because of the detroit river, it's a very narrow river that leads from lake erie to lake huron. this is important because of commerce, getting goods from the upper region in michigan and the rest of the great lakes, but also a strategic position. at this point, it was on both sides of the river. because of this, they controlled the entire span leading up to the rest of the great lakes. important from both a strategic aspect and in terms of controlling trade. following the french and indian war, new france became british. it was all seated to the british in 1763. right now you are looking at a really great model of detroit. this is how it maybe would've looked in 1792. t

detroit to canada. traveling across the abbasid or bridge is nearly 10,000 cars a day plus another 2000 semitruck's. the main transport for semi trucks leaving america and going into canada through michigan. we see everything on those trucks. from gerber baby food through kellogg's cereal made in michigan. anything and everything that has to be traded. as the two biggest international trading partners in the world you can imagine the depth and scope of what is traveling the bridge. in 1929, when the detroit windsor ambassador bridge opens and again in 1930 when the heraldedens, they are as engineering marvels. great engineering feats of the world and put detroit on the map not only architecturally but through heralded as engineering prosperity, beine to bring in the tobacco that makes our cigar manufacturing flourish at the turn-of-the-century, bringing in stovew iron to make our industry and later automotive industry flourish. when the bridge opens in 1930 we are at the height of prohibition. it quickl

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also here in detroit. ransom had started a company was one of the very first to get in the manufacturing business. unfortunately, his factory burned down just as he was about to go into production on several different models. and the only one that survived was the curved dash. all started producing it in 1901 and it really became the first mass produced automobile in the united states. he figured out the assembly line something most people credit henry ford with both of those gentlemen learned about assembly lines from other products that were mass produced. and in detroit's case, we learned a lot from the chicago stockyards where they used assembly lines to disassemble meat. ransom also was able to get a patent on the assembly and he brought it to detroit and down near belle isle, he started mass producing the curved dash poles and it became the most popular and one of the most affordable early cars in detroit and in the united states. while ransome all started, his old motor works here in detroit, he eve

detroit? >> it will turn around the city of detroit. >> the motor city. this is will we do. john: what's up with detroit? can this happen to your town? that's our show tonight. ♪ >> and now john stossel. ♪ john: detroit was once the richest city in america. i was three years old and. that was the 1950's. now it's the biggest u.s. city ever to declare bankruptcy. so what happened? our guests tonight have some clues. first, fox news reporter works in detroit and just wrote, detroit, an american autopsy. an autopsy, one examines the dead body and tries to find out what killed him. detroit isn't that exactly. what killed the trust? >> would kill the charge, racial conflict of detroit. slav kill detroit. corruption children. it seems like that is what has become the american way because detroit is not alone. what is baltimore going to do, atlanta, l.a. john: detroit is and worse shape. worse politicians, more unions. the automaker collapsed. it was in the politicians' fault. it was just the big thr

i'm supplying from detroit. i'm hiring people from detroit. if i were asked the same question, i would say i don't know. i'm doing what i do well. i'm doing it in a place that i love and i'm demonstrating that yet another person gives a -- about detroit and believes in it enough to be here. >> you're 100% right. i never really thought about it. until you asked that question. to me, it's just obvious. >> what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. >>> i hope you're enjoying our trip into the greatest city in america, detroit. >>> somewhere in this unassuming neighborhood, one can sit down for an excellent meal. but you won't find this place on yelp, and unfortunately, i cannot tell you where it is exactly. why not, you ask? it's not exactly a restaurant, you see, which means it's not, strictly speaking, legal. what is this place? >> pupusa house. i call it pupusa house. >> it's a cultural thing. traditionally they're out of houses. it's just something that people b

just a detroit but it is a detroit city it is detroit city. you had to explain that to people. >> i don't know how to explain it. people always remark, detroit. >> how did you come up with that? >> from a tech agent. to spell motor city madhouse was appropriate for this moment, we talked during the talk, detroit's weird trendiness, opposed recession seems to have become the place to be for all sorts of reasons, people wanting to fix it, people wanting to come up with her and realignment plans, people wanting to take pictures of the ruins. for whatever reason it seems like a special moment. it felt right. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website mark binelli.com. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern -- visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> he creates debate is an american bar association book that looks at dick of legal arguments on national security law. a co-editor of the book and four co

how is it, only buying my products from detroit or farmers in detroit, not helping detroit?e lives in detroit. >> anthony: if i were asked the same question, i would say i don't -- know. i'm doing what i do well. i'm doing it in a place i love and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a -- about detroit, and believes in it enough to be here. >> chef craig: you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me, it was just obvious. >> announcer: what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. then your eyes may see it differently. only flonase is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. when we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. most allergy pills only control one substance. flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. complete allergy relief or i

detroit some part of its essential detroitness." three or four people who i gave the book to read, came back and asked me about that specific last line, and they are curious whether what you're saying is that our dysfunction is such a part of us that we can't afford to let it go -- [laughter] that we can't afford to lose it. [laughter] a couple people were mad. >> yeah. >> when they asked me about that, and i said, well, you know, i don't know. i'm asking you. >> yeah, i don't mean dysfunction, but i do think there's -- i don't know. i don't want to say i worry about this because i think any, you know, positive development, detroit people welcome that, period, but i think about, you know, what new positive developments -- especially in, you know, you see stuff coming up in downtown, like, what will that mean exactly? is bulldozing a bunch of those old buildings and putting up new mall-like structures, like, some people cheer that. >> right. >> a lot of people cheer that, and in way, you know, why not? you drive past the same rotted

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trading outpost on the detroit river where detroit is now.e came out of the northern in canoesontreal with a handful of men about 100 , men. when they arrived they , immediately got to work at building a settlement. this represents a ribbon farm. a ribbon farm is an agricultural method established by the french when they settled here. imagine you have the detroit river like this. detroit on top of that. written farms stretched out on either in cash ribbon farms stretched out on each end. this allowed each family and farmer to have a little bit of land near the river, near the water. this would be used for watering your plants, and also critically important, for transport as well. detroit is a very attractive spot for the french because of the detroit river. that a very narrow river leads from lake erie to lake huron. this is important not only because of commerce, getting goods on the upper region in michigan and the rest of the great lakes, but also at a strategic permission. at this point detroit was both sides of the river. the north ameri

how is it buying only products in detroit, farmers in detroit, helping detroit?it. everyone here lives in detroit. >> if i ask the same question, i say i don't [ muted] i'm doing it well. i'm doing anytime a place i love. and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a [ muted ], believes in it enough to be here. >> you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me it's just obvious. >> what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that-- awesome career-planning tool. and that's a student, working late, with a day job, taking courses aligned with the industry he's aiming to be in. ready to build an education around the career that you want? let's get to work

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detroit. she talks about how detroit is the sort of place where people are doing things every day that you're not expected to do anywhere else. people come home from work and patrolling neighborhoods because their site every claiming the think that lots and turning them into gardens are concert venues. they're bored and i it houses. bible chapter in the book and i feel like that surprised me i guess, that the extent of that and how real and kind of inspirational that can be. >> some of the characters in your book are familiar characters. characters we see written up all the time in reference to detroit. one of them is by rick akin, someone who lives not too far from me and where i grew up. i've read i don't know how many different things about tyree who i've met several times and talked to. this treatment was very different than anything else i have seen and i wanted to read just a couple drafts of how you captured him and talk more about it. at the end of this section it says guyton said he b

they became the big three that detroit is known for. they settled here and took good jobs and helped to build the industries they were involved in. following the turn of the 19th century, we had an influx that really helped build detroit into this wonderful melting pot of various neighborhoods, very polish neighborhoods, serbian, hungarian. there were lots of folks living amongst each other and working together in the car companies. in fact, i've heard the rouge plant described as the tower of babbel because there were so many different languages being spoken on the same assembly line. their families with worked in the plants for years. many generation, one after another. black workers were in the dirtier and tougher jobs, in the wheel works. the white workers tended to get the assembly line jobs. during world war ii much of this changed. a will the of younger guys took off to fight in the war and the whole process within the plant started to include older workers. it started to include woman. it started to include handicap workers. the

across the detroit river is the city of detroit.ext, our look at the city continues as we explore the border crossing between canada busiest in all the country. >> it isn't just a link of two cities, it's the link of two nations. canada and america are the two biggest trade partners in the world. -- bridge behind me kenexa connects $16 billion in trading here for both countries. on thisjobs rely network of transportation and international trade. it's a tremendously important part of our history. it has been since pre-civil war. during prohibition, 75% of all in this country for the 14 years of prohibition and neighbors from the south. trade in 1800s in detroit was stone city usa, the guard capital of america. we were not only transporting and raw materials. there were days in 1860's where you had 7000 railroad cars waiting to be transported that could not get across the river because the train would have to wait for fairies -- ferries. that made the conversation about either a tunnel or a bridge. it had to be done because we had sto

race happened to detroit. competition happened to detroit. trade happened to detroit. it built the thing that destroyed itself, the car. we built the car to leave the city, so isn't that ironic? just 40the richest years ago. we were the richest city, and now we are the poorest, and now you cannot buy a cadillac in the town settled by cadillac. so what happened to detroit happened. i am more interested in what is going to happen and if i can make it better for all of our kids, and i'm interested in that. there used to be so much money here. they talk about the saturday night drives up and down woodward, and you got a new car every other year, and there were so many jobs that you could go across the streets to the other supplier i get another job until your boss to screw it. we were rocking. we had the greatest schools and graduates, so we did not take advantage of it because cars were our life and then things changed. after the oil, people did not want the cars. the cars were made poorly, right? the japanese and foreign car started catching us. factories started moving

how is it buying only products in detroit, farmers in detroit, helping detroit?roit. everyone here lives in detroit. >> if i ask the same question, i say i don't [ muted ]. i'm doing it well. i'm doing it in a place that i love. and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a [ muted ], believes in it enough to be here. >> you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me it's just obvious. >> what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. to prove that it's still fresh on day 30. [ byron ] what do you guys think of the smell? fresh. i forgot we were in a taxi. this is a febreze vent clip. it's 30 days old. wow! no way. [ male announcer ] febreze keeps your car fresh for up to 30 days without fading. a seven day cruise to alaska or the caribbean from just $549. that's seven days to either marve

bring detroit back because people invested detroit. the book to try to explain this to people. it's titled belle isle, the detroit gamehanger. thnew rk times, i'm not surprised to must near you. the writer said that the book has the hero landing onthe rooftop helipad of the 57 story hotel. it makes the entire scheme vy easy to mock as objective is to fan fiction. objective is referringo eyeing rand. you are a fan of hers. >> i am. john: you talk of having a billion dollars, trying to buy this from the city. within this city would gym but that. politicians often surprise me. detroit city council members don't want to give up much of anything when michigan's governor offered to have the state takver belle island park since detroit can't even afford to maintain it, local politicians screamed. >> you may not take over bell isla. it belongs to the people. john: it belongs to the people, not to you. >> this would create a lot of jobs and opportu. rit now there's no hope for the future. this would create that held. john: this could save detro

let's see the first car that traveled on the streets of detroit. what we are looking at here looks very much like an old-fashioned wagon. we just do not have a horse in front of it. in fact the horses are sitting inside the vehicle. it says a motorized carriage, a horseless carriage. this was the very first car to operate on the streets of detroit. charles brady king, not henry ford, charles brady king was the guy who designed this car, designed the engine inside of it. it is an unusual engine, a four-cylinder engine, when most people were using single or double cylinder engines. so a real powerful little vehicle. charles brady king anda buddy, oliver bartel, who helped him with the engine, drove this down the streets of detroit in 1896. henry ford was there. he was on a bicycle about 25 feet behind chasing them. starting in the 1870's and 1880's, people started to understand that you could take a steam engine or a nasa engine and apply it to an automobile. eventually, electricity was used to do that. electric cars existed before gasoline engines.

how does detroit regard you?onest, when i talk to people of detroit, we're not as much of a factor for them. so they don't think of going to windsor for the weekend. what's it like living in the shadow of a big american city? windsor's history mirror a lot of detroit's history. both windsor and detroit make things. they're known for manufacturing, they're known for automotive stuff. i wouldn't say we are in the shadow. i'd say it's a shared identity. we both really went through the recession together. we both are growing and trying to come back and learning from each other's strategies. around 15,000 people live in the city center where sarah's organization operates. most of these citizens exist on a low income. and 35% of the children live below the poverty line. unfortunately, they're often forgotten by the municipality. but sarah sees the place, and rightfully so, as the core of the city, because poor or not, the city center is the heart of any city. and if you want urban renewal, real urban renewal, let me te