Kyle Bell

I wanted to take the time to promote three of the e-books that I have published online at Amazon.com. All three of these works are adapted from papers that I wrote for my political science classes at IUSB. The first of these that I am going to highlight is an 8 page paper I did on the rise and fall of Detroit, Michigan:

I have always been fascinated by cities: large, small and anywhere in between. Cities are the life blood of the world economy, culture and politics. Over the past many decades, starting with the end to revenue sharing between the federal government and cities, with the economic turmoil of de-industrialization and the migration of “snow birds” to the South, many cities have found it difficult to survive.

Being born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, I have first hand experience with the hardships that cities face today. Right next door in nearby Elkhart County the unemployment rate has soared as the RV and other industries have suffered from high gas prices and deteriorating economic conditions across the country. The problems in Indiana pale in comparison to those of our neighbor to the north in the state of Michigan.

I took a class this past semester titled POLS-B 399 Urban Politics (a big thanks goes out to Professor James Smith for a wonderful experience) at Indiana University South Bend. This work is the culmination of a semester’s worth of studying and research on urban politics with my term paper focusing on the city of Detroit. I hope you find this short report on the state of affairs in Detroit, Michigan to be both informative and useful.

That is just the Prologue. You can find the full version of Detroit: City on the Brink at SmashWords (iPhone/Sony Reader/iPod Touch/PDF) and on Amazon if you have a Kindle for $1.99.