Detroit, Dynamic City

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No better teller of the amazing story of Detroit than Mr. Pound could have been chosen by any jury. A native son, he knows the history of his state in general and in detail. And he knows too at first hand the automobile industry of which Detroit is the nation’s metropolis, as it is in all ways the metropolis of Michigan. Not until Chapter XXVII, ‘Enter the Automobile,’ does this development engage the author, but from then on he handles it with wisdom and adequacy. Primarily he is concerned with Detroit, the city, conceived by the French, but in its coming of age wholly American. He is entirely right in calling it a ‘dynamic city.’ Its location and manifest destiny, plus its citizenry, made it so inevitably. A sympathetic exposition of a great American community, Mr. Pound’s excellent book is greatly enriched by the many splendid illustrations by E. H. Suydam.