They Lied to Us About Detroit: The Preview Edition
They Lied to Us About Detroit: The Preview Edition
THEY TOLD YOU THE ENDING.
THIS IS THE STORY THEY LEFT OUT.
Start reading They Lied to Us About Detroit today with the 36-page Preview Edition from History Loves Company.
Detroit was not destroyed by one night.
It was not destroyed by one mayor.
It was not destroyed by one group of people.
And the real story is far more complicated than most of us were ever taught.
They Lied to Us About Detroit: The Preview Edition is a 36-page early-access digital edition for readers who want to begin the story before the complete first edition arrives.
This is not the full book.
It is the doorway into it.
Digital Download — No Physical Item Will Be Shipped.
Your PDF will be delivered instantly to your email after purchase.
INSIDE THE PREVIEW EDITION
- Detroit before the automobile
- Rise of the automobile industry
- Ford, labor, housing, and growth
- Black Bottom
- Detroit streetcars
- Expressways and suburbanization
- Major misconceptions about Detroit
- Detroit history timeline
- Places where the evidence still survives
- Preview of the complete 34-chapter book
- Links and QR codes to the They Lied to Us documentary series
- Boblo Day announcement
- October 17 book signing
- Special unrevealed surprise
THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
The Preview Edition gives you the map.
The complete They Lied to Us About Detroit takes you street by street.
The full first edition expands the story across 34 chapters and more than three centuries of Detroit history.
The Preview Edition introduces the questions.
The full book follows the evidence.
The complete book goes deeper into: Indigenous Detroit, colonial Detroit, slavery and freedom, Underground Railroad history, immigration, the Great Migration, Ford, labor, housing discrimination, Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, redlining, streetcars, expressways, suburbanization, 1967, Coleman Young, Poletown, deindustrialization, population loss, bankruptcy, redevelopment, and Detroit through 2026.
PREORDER THE SIGNED FIRST EDITION →
THE FULL BOOK IS WHERE THE ARGUMENT GETS PROVEN.
If the Preview Edition changes even one thing you thought you knew about Detroit, do not stop here.
The Preview Edition is designed to introduce the story.
The full book is designed to prove it.
Across 34 chapters, They Lied to Us About Detroit follows the people, systems, industries, policies, neighborhoods, highways, and decisions that created the Detroit we inherited.
BOBLO DAY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026
The Foundry
35 W Huron St
Pontiac, Michigan
History Loves Company is bringing Boblo memories, artifacts, photographs, history, stories, film, and community together for one day at The Foundry.
THEY LIED TO US ABOUT DETROIT — BOOK SIGNING — OCTOBER 17
Boblo history. Artifacts. Community memories. Documentary presentation. History Loves Company. And the book signing.
KEEP YOUR PURCHASE CONFIRMATION.
We have something special planned for Preview Edition readers who join us at The Foundry on October 17.
We are not announcing it beforehand.
You will have to be there.
ALREADY PREORDERED THE FULL BOOK?
Perfect.
The Preview Edition complements your preorder rather than replacing it.
The full first edition is the complete historical work.
The Preview Edition gives you something to begin reading immediately, follow alongside the documentary series, and bring into the October 17 Boblo Day experience.
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