![]() Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there two months before he made it famous in the Washington march. The progressive labor movement was rooted in Detroit with the UAW. Motown was capturing the world with its amazing artists. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before and inventing the Mustang. Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. It was the American auto makers' best year the revolution in music and politics was underway. ![]() Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha Governor George Romney, Mormon and civil rights advocate super car salesman Lee Iacocca Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Kennedy acolyte Police Commissioner George Edwards Martin Luther King. ![]() ![]() The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Henry Ford II, the grandson of the first Ford influential labor leader Walter Reuther Motown's founder, Berry Gordy the Reverend C.L. It's 1963, and Detroit is on top of the world. As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already past history. ![]()
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