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The Many and the Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers by Henry Kraus – Flint Book of the Week

The Many and the Few is an insider’s chronicle of the pivotal United Automobile Workers (UAW) sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint, Michigan in 1936–1937, a defining moment in American labor history. The author, Henry Kraus, was himself a UAW activist and editor deeply involved in the events he recounts, giving the narrative both… Read More The Many and the Few: A Chronicle of the Dynamic Auto Workers by Henry Kraus – Flint Book of the Week

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Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class by Edward McClelland – Flint Book of the Week

Midnight in Vehicle City is a narrative history of the 1936–1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike, a pivotal labor action that transformed American industry and helped give rise to the modern middle class. Centered in Flint, Michigan—also known as “Vehicle City” and the heart of General Motors’ manufacturing empire—the book chronicles how ordinary auto workers challenged one… Read More Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class by Edward McClelland – Flint Book of the Week

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Recollections of a Michigan Boyhood (Charles A. Branch) – Flint Book of the Week

Recollections of a Michigan Boyhood by Charles Andrew Branch, edited by Robert G. Schafer, was published by the University of Michigan–Flint Archives (in cooperation with the Genesee County Historical Society) in 1983; the edition runs ~162 pages. This is a first-person rural memoir: Branch pieces together a lifetime of memories about growing up in Genesee… Read More Recollections of a Michigan Boyhood (Charles A. Branch) – Flint Book of the Week

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The History of UAW Local 659: We Make Our Own History (1993) – Flint Book of the Week

The History of UAW Local 659 is a union-produced historical volume documenting the origins, struggles, triumphs, and community presence of UAW Local 659, one of Flint’s major General Motors locals. Compiled by Local 659’s History Committee and edited by members including Don Mosher and Al Anthony, the book serves as both a historical reference and… Read More The History of UAW Local 659: We Make Our Own History (1993) – Flint Book of the Week

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Music Makers from Mid-Michigan and Surrounding Areas, 1940s thru 1970s: Who Were They? (William R. Holtzapple) – Flint Book of the Week

Music Makers from Mid-Michigan and Surrounding Areas, 1940s thru 1970s: Who Were They? (William R. Holtzapple)Lulu.com / self-published (paperback, 2006). (~196–204 pages). A self-published, heavily illustrated local music reference and partial discography that documents recording artists, bands, studios, labels, and related people active in Mid-Michigan from roughly the 1940s through the 1970s. It is a… Read More Music Makers from Mid-Michigan and Surrounding Areas, 1940s thru 1970s: Who Were They? (William R. Holtzapple) – Flint Book of the Week

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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (Ben Hamper) – Flint Book of the Week

Rivethead is Ben Hamper’s darkly hilarious, brutally honest memoir about life as a “shop-rat” on General Motors’ assembly lines in Flint, Michigan. It captures the culture, chaos, humor, and despair of factory work in the 1970s and 1980s, told in Hamper’s signature voice—sharp, sarcastic, and unsparing.The book opens with Hamper’s childhood in a big Catholic… Read More Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (Ben Hamper) – Flint Book of the Week

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Buick, The Factory Whistle & Me (Bill Lamb) – Flint Book of the Week

In this warm, plainspoken memoir, radio legend Bill Lamb pulls back the curtain on a life lived at the intersection of a blue-collar city and its soundtrack. Part personal history, part oral chronicle of mid-century Flint, the book traces Lamb’s journey from itinerant broadcaster to the familiar voice who kept time with the Buick factory… Read More Buick, The Factory Whistle & Me (Bill Lamb) – Flint Book of the Week

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Local DJ: A Rock ’n’ Roll History by Peter L. Cavanaugh (Peter ‘C’) – Flint Book of the Week

At first glance, the book reads as an autobiographical memoir, but Cavanaugh arranges his recollections as an interwoven mosaic of personal stories, industry anecdotes, and cultural history. Rather than a strictly linear life story, the narrative jumps between on-air moments, concert promotions, and broader reflections on how rock music transformed American youth culture from the… Read More Local DJ: A Rock ’n’ Roll History by Peter L. Cavanaugh (Peter ‘C’) – Flint Book of the Week

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Always the Right Thing by Roy O Richard – Rostie Publishing

“Please allow me to introduce myself…”Firstly you should know that I am a card carrying curmudgeon. This includes a sarcastic sense of humor, a limited amount of patience and deep down inside a caring heart.Find inside these pages my attempts at self-expression. Poetry and short essays fill the pages. The ramblings include religion, genealogy and… Read More Always the Right Thing by Roy O Richard – Rostie Publishing

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The Vixen: A Rustbelt Vampire Story by Roy O. Richard – Rostie Publishing

In Flint, Michigan, an often forgotten and ridiculed rust belt town, Oliver, an aging shopkeeper, notices a fleeting female figure in the night as he leaves his bookstore. He is taken by the brief glimpse. It is not a coincidence when the two meet again, and the vixen he had seen makes him an offer… Read More The Vixen: A Rustbelt Vampire Story by Roy O. Richard – Rostie Publishing

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