| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Heather Ann Thompson. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 295. $29.95

The urban political history of the 1960s and 1970s is just beginning to be written. Until recently the province of journalists and memoir writers, the upheavals of that era are now receiving their first round of scholarly treatments. Heather Ann Thompson provides a thorough, provocative history of public life and labor relations in a community buffeted by racial and class conflict. Stressing the political as well as the social and economic dimensions of the urban crisis, her book explores the complex legacies of sixties liberalism and radicalism in Detroit. It represents an important contribution to the first generation of truly historical accounts of the 1960s, but one that also suggests the need for a more sophisticated analytical approach to the period's urban politics. . . .

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