I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. I found this book incredibly interesting the author really kept me hooked until the end. very well written I highly recommend.

First of all: what is with this title? "The Sack of Detroit" could have been about the decimation of the city's housing stock by banks like Chase and Wells Fargo, who offered predatory mortgages, foreclosed on the owners, and then wrote the houses off as losses and left them to rot. It could have been about the corrupt city government and school board, whose members have stolen from the neediest citizens for decades now. It could even have been about the hapless Detroit Lions players who so often snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But no. "Detroit" here is shorthand for the US auto industry and the book is about how in the 1960s, meanies like Ralph Nader dared suggest that American car companies needed to improve their products' safety by means of regulation, and how GM chose to respond to that spectacularly badly. I guess if you are in an MBA program, this is a useful case study. But it's a bit disturbing to write off safety improvements as unnecessary and expensive. The current recalls and lawsuits concerning vaping products show that consumers and companies will go headlong into dangerous territory until lawsuits and legislatures intervene.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.