Scott Martelle's Books
Apr.01.2012
Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America’s great cities, and one of the nation’s greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later—resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry...
May.12.2011
Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life itself. Hysteria about the "red menace" mushroomed as the Soviet Union tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, Mao Zedong...
Oct.15.2007
A narrative exploration of one of the most violent labor showdowns in American history, in which more than 75 people were killed over seven months. The book touches on such legendary figures as John D. Rockefeller (Jr. and Sr.) and Mother Jones as it explores the guerrilla war the erupted amid the collapse of political structures and that took the intervention of the U.S. Army to...
About Scott
A freelance journalist and critic (former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times), Scott Martelle is the author of Detroit: A Biography, published in April 2012 by Chicago Review Press.
. He also is the author of The Fear Within: Spies, Commies and...