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Detroit: A City on the Brink

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For an e-book priced $2.99, I expected this to be a fairly short read. Thankfully it is well-written and has some relevant photos to go along with the topic. It's a must-read for those concerned about the decline of Detroit and urban areas more generally.

About 10 pages long, I would not have purchased if I was informed of that on the purchase page. This looks like a school project. I want my $2 back. Good cover art.

This is a very short, simple description of Detroits economic and political situation. Other than a few statistics, this article contains nothing any educated person from south east michigan couldn't explain off the top of their head. It is also rife with an annoying typing style that seems to be a poor attempt at citing the work. I wouldn't even expect an "A" if this was a paper I wrote for an economics or political science class. I'm disapointed I paid for it, and intend on writing a much more in depth and up to date insight into Detroit that does not contain so many repetitions of the same ideas. Took less than a half hour to read. I've paid less on Kindle for hundreds of page novels, and one edition of the Detroit News would be more valuable to a reader trying to garnish some insight into the city and people that helped make the United States such a wealthy and successful country before the wholesale scrapping of our industrial sector. I would not suggest paying for this. I would expect such an article to be the forward to an actual book. I don't wish to insult the writer but they did not put enough effort into this to justify the cost charged. An issue of the Detroit News is $.49. Read that, it's up-to-date atleast. It also won't consitantly use sweeping, imprecise comments to describe huge economic realities. I'm sorry if I've made any typing errors, grammatical or spelling. This is been posted from a cellular telephone. With an update and editing I would add a star or two depending on the quality jump shown.