Talk:Jerome Cavanagh

What is the Correct Spelling of his Last Name?
His last name is spelled in different ways throughout the article. That needs to be corrected.John Paul Parks (talk) 06:01, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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There is no definitive Cavanagh biography that I am aware of. The best known book about Detroit in the 1960s in Thomas Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis, but that book is extremely incomplete in that it contains nothing about Detroit's sky-high taxes and neglects the role of the riots in destroying the city.

The most thorough study of the riots is Sidney Fine's Violence in the Model City.-- Dinopup

The information about the 1967 riot was interesting, but a bit off-topic so I removed it. I didn't want to lose it, though, so I incorporated it in the article about the riot, 12th Street Riot. --Chowbok 20:34, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

I think the information about the riots is very relevant. The riots illustrate the flaw in Cavanagh's position. He defeated Miriani by siding with the blacks. He marched with Martin Luther King down Woodward Avenue. His naive appeasement efforts got him nowhere, because the riots came, and the people who actually worked and supported the city moved away. The city's decline began in 1967 after the riots. It has never recovered, and it never will. The city is a wall-to-wall slum. John Paul Parks (talk) 13:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to know why the author believes that if the Big Three had wanted to rid themselves of unions, they'd move 20-30 miles into ex/suburbs where they'd still be unionized. That's ridiculous. It seems to me to be more conservative hobble gobble: Blame unions for everything wrong in this country despite the fact that our standard of living was created by those unions.

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Substituted at 19:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)