Quotes by Jerry Herron

About Jerry Herron:

Jerry Herron is the dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University . He was born in Abilene, Texas and received his PhD and MA from Indiana University and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written two books: Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. He is also a The Detroit News writer.
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[S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit’s bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than a...

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Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization had its way with people and places, no one was native to the transformation of the United States from an agricultural economy to the foremost industr...

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...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world ...

Jerry Herron

Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.

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Author Bio

  • NameJerry Herron
  • DescriptionAmerican dean