Micheline Maynard — "Micki" to her friends and Twitter followers — is the Detroit-based senior business correspondent for the New York Times covering autos and aviation, and the author of the just-released The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies are Remaking the American Dream. If you're wondering if it's a good book, consider this: Her last one, The End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market, was published in 2003 and got pooh-poohed all over the Motor City. Well, we know how THAT one turned out. (more...)