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|title=The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant
|author=Mark Binelli
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Moving back to his native Detroit, Mark Binelli tries to see where it all went wrong for a city which was once ''America's capitalist dream town'' but has shrunk more significantly than anywhere else in the country over recent years. How did this happen, and what effect has it had on the residents there? Is the decline irreversible, or can those who want to bring about a changed and improved Detroit succeed?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553880</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain in 1846
|summary=It was in the eighteenth century that an area of London consisting of about half a square mile, from Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden’s Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, with Covent Garden at the very centre, became what has in modern times been recognised as the world’s first creative ‘bohemia’. This was where the cream of Britain’s significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists of the age lived and worked, side by side with the city’s chief market traders, craftsmen, shopkeepers, rakes, pickpockets and prostitutes. One might say that all human life was here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846146771</amazonuk>
}}