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RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium. ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 2,848 ratings · 233 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
Henry and Edsel: The Creati...
3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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Boneyards: Detroit under Gr...
4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010
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Detroit: 1900-1930
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A Place for Summer: a Narra...
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Turkey Stearnes and the Det...
3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Peach: Ty Cobb In His Time ...
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Ty Cobb: His Tumultuous Lif...
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Joe Louis: The Great Black ...
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot: A...
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