![]() Patrick's Day parade in Detroit earlier this month. The journalist, most recently the author of the New York Times bestseller, Detroit: An Autopsy of an American City, was charged with aggravated assault after a boozy brawl at a St. And now it seems that Charlie LeDuff, like the city he covers, may have come a bit undone. But in the five years since Charlie Le Duff came home to the Motor City to cover the city's cataclysmic unraveling, the hell-bent, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter has destroyed the careers of at least a dozen Detroit politicians, helped send about half those corrupt officials to prison and simply made a damned fool out of several more.īut he has not been able to shake the torment of this long-suffering metropolis. Corruption and anomie were the orders of the day. The population had cratered, once-grand buildings moldered, whole neighborhoods had been emptied and left to nature. ![]() When Charlie LeDuff came home to Detroit five years ago, it was a wasteland. ![]()
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