Reading the Fallacies book helped me connect many of the mental manipulations to the book Detroit: An American Autopsy, since a lot of the book focuses on the corrupt politics of Detroit as a city. However, the fallacy that stood out to me as I was reading Detroit, was "Dirty Trick #7: Appealing to popular passions". This trick was unique, because it was not the author, Charlie LeDuff using a fallacy to manipulate the reader, but the new mayor using it to appeal to the voter. "After retiring from basketball, he started his own business manufacturing auto parts in Detroit. He ran his mayoral campaign tutoring this executive acumen" (p.176).
Although his statement appealed to the voters of Detroit, LeDuff adds: "An elegant, introverted and geriatric figure, Bing neglected to tell the voters that his business was failing and that it had existed hand-to-mouth for a number of years" (p.176). This shows that Bing was appealing to the voters of Detroit by identifying with being apart of the auto industry and starting his own company (to show success) but denied telling the voter the whole truth.
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