Liars (50 page)

“ ‘tax and tax, and elect and elect' ”
Michael Hiltzik,
The New Deal: A Modern History
(New York: Free Press, 2011) p. 438.

“ ‘center of the radical universe in those days' ”
Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler,
Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young
(New York: Viking, 1994), p. 128.

“ ‘too bad they didn't kill that [expletive]' ”
David M. Lewis Colman,
Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit
(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), p. 37.

“Communist-dominated Progressive Party”
Wilbur C. Rich,
Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 67.

“ran for state senator as a progressive”
Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler,
Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young
(New York: Viking, 1994), 37.

“officially labeled a Communist front”
Martin Halpern,
Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century
(Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2003), p. 70. Wilbur C. Rich,
Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 71.

“he took the Fifth Amendment”
Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler,
Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young
(New York: Viking, 1994), pp. 120–21
. See also:
Martin Halpern,
Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century
(Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2003), p. 70.

“elected as a state senator”
Wilbur C. Rich,
Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 85.

“ ‘have sprung up in their place' ”
Encyclopedia of Detroit Online
, “Cavanagh, Jerome,” Detroit Historical Society, Accessed May 30, 2016,
http://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/cavanagh-jerome
.

“ignited by a police raid on an African-American nightclub”
“July 23 1967: The 12th Street Riot,”
This Day in History
(blog),
History.com
, July 23, 2010,
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-12th-street-riot
.

“ ‘left the city a fiscal and social wreck' ”
James Q. Wilson, “The Closing of the American City,” review of
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
, by Lou Cannon, and
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for
Integration
, by Tamar Jacoby,
New Republic
, May 11, 1998,
https://newrepublic.com/article/101313/la-riots-1992-racism-rodney-king-trial
.

“ ‘the sort of polarization that other politicians dread' ”
Isabel Wilkerson, “The Nation: After Four Terms, Us Versus Them Still Plays in Detroit,”
The New York Times
, September 17, 1989,
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/weekinreview/the-nation-after-four-terms-us-versus-them-still-plays-in-detroit.html
.

“ ‘Renaissance Center' in Detroit's fading downtown”
Robin Meredith, “GM Buys a Landmark of Detroit for Its Home,”
The New York Times
, May 17, 1996,
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/17/us/gm-buys-a-landmark-of-detroit-for-its-home.html
.

“ten thousand of the city's ninety thousand abandoned homes”
“Nearly Half of Detroit's Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds,”
Huffington Post
, May 7, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html
.

“ ‘We had to make a culture change' ”
Alex P. Kellogg, “Detroit Shrinks Itself, Historic Homes and All,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 14, 2010,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703950804575242433435338728
.

“on a house so it will be worth $400,000' ”
Alex P. Kellogg, “Detroit Shrinks Itself, Historic Homes and All,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 14, 2010,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703950804575242433435338728
.

“Few citizens ever used the ‘People Mover' ”
Derek Hunter, “Detroit: My City Was Gone,”
TownHall.com
, July 28, 2016,
http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2013/07/28/detroit-my-city-was-gone-n1650664
.

“later sold it to General Motors for $80 Million
”
Isabel Wilkerson, “The Nation: After Four Terms, Us Versus Them Still Plays in Detroit,”
The New York Times
, September 17, 1989,
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/weekinreview/the-nation-after-four-terms-us-versus-them-still-plays-in-detroit.html
.

“federal investigators probed his efforts”
“Colman A. Young, 79, Mayor of Detroit and Political Symbol for Blacks, Is Dead,”
The New York Times
, December 1, 1997,
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/01/us/coleman-a-young-79-mayor-of-detroit-and-political-symbol-for-blacks-is-dead.html?pagewanted=all
.

“His Honor is scheduled to be released in 2041”
Elisha Anderson, “Kwame Kilpatrick's Conviction and Sentence Upheld,”
Detroit Free Press
, August 14, 2016,
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/08/14/kwame-kilpatrick-appeal-conviction-upheld/31724407/
.

“once upon a time, a ‘Poletown' ”
“Poletown” should not be confused with next-door, once-overwhelmingly Polish-American Hamtramck, a community now with a Muslim-American majority on its city council: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “In the First Majority-Muslim US City, Residents Tense About Its Future,”
The Washington Post
, November 21, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-first-majority-muslim-us-city-residents-tense-about-its-future/2015/11/21/45d0ea96-8a24-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html
.

“
No, thank you. We don't want to move.
”
James Risen, “Poletown Becomes Just a Memory: GM Plant Opens, Replacing Old Detroit Neighborhood,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 18, 1985,
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-09-18/business/fi-6228_1_gm-plant
.

“ ‘like we were a bunch of criminals' ”
Jeanine Wylie,
Poletown: Community Betrayed
(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990), p. 111.

“costing twenty-five hundred workers their jobs”
Jeanine Wylie,
Poletown: Community Betrayed
(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990), p. 255.

Scoring Per Question

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b = 4 points

c = 3 points

d = 2 points

e = 1 point

0–20 = Ron Paul (Libertarian)

21–35 = Ted Cruz (Conservative)

36–60 = Jeb Bush (Moderate)

61–80 = Donald Trump (Moderate Progressive)

81–100 = Hillary/Obama (Liberal Progressive)

100+ = Bernie Sanders (Socialist Progressive)

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