[bourbon]

A friend once recommended a book to me about Coleman Young and his disastrous "reign" over Detroit. None of you all, by any chance, remember the name of this book? If you do, I'd be grateful if you'd tell me. I've been looking for it on and off for some time, but it's pretty hard to find a book when you don't know the name of the author or the title. Thanks. I've always wanted to read it because my friend described it as "the best textbook available for learning how NOT to run a city."

[The Energizer]

Well, I remember Coleman Young being furious at a book that likened Detroit to Beirut, basically making the case it, more than any other North American city, was run like a third-world country.

A quick Internet search, however, did not yield anything useful.