Detroit: An American Autopsy

I just started reading Charlie LeDuff's Detroit: An American Autopsy. He was on the Colbert show to talk about Detroit's many, many problems.

LeDuff, who wrote for the Detroit News and now works for WJBK-TV (Channel 2), attributed to the city’s problems to “White flight, black flight, business flight, job flight, we even have dead flight,” he said, citing a trend of Detroit residents afraid to even bury their relatives in the city.

During the seven-minute interview with host Stephen Colbert, LeDuff described Detroit’s fiscal crisis as a cautionary tale for the rest of the country. “You better look at Detroit, because that’s what happens when you run out of money.”

LeDuff has anecdote after interview after sad, sad, incident detailed in the first 1/3 or so of the book that I've read. I particularly appreciated his not-funny but literal account of the Kwame sexting scandal, not to mention the Monica Conyers scandal. He also recounts memories of his family, who has also been scarred by Detroit. Great read thus far.