A review by fyou1226
Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back by Nathan Bomey

4.0

What a concise, well-written, easy to follow and enormously entertaining (particularly for public policy wonks and fiscal policy analysts) chronicle of the largest municipal bankruptcy ever in the United States. Bomey's employs the clever, knowledgeable, brisk-paced style of an investigative reporter to draw out the humanizing attributes and suspense of this real life drama and subsequent consequences all of the roles the various actors in this play were facing. The funny quips, stories and comments from the various players (the Emergency Manager, City Officials, and my new hero Judge Steven Rhodes) added an even more humanizing and interesting dynamic to a story that many outside of the field would just dismiss at a surface level for being dry bureaucratic, financial mumbo-jumbo. Kudos to Detroit Resurrected for telling such a nuanced allegory of financial crisis being a symbol of the overall collapse of a major, iconic modern industrial city and the heroic sacrifices it's people, legislators and city officials made in an attempt to resurrect it.