Temple University Press, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Atlanta has transformed from a provincial capital to a global city, but it still contains inequalities, particularly for African-Americans. Keating tells troubling stories of development plans that are under the control of private business and the lack of democratic process. Moderate shelf wear..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
skirt! July 2008. First Edition. Cloth. Once upon a time, Hollis Gillespie was ashamed about having a hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and a missile-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. That was then. This is now. Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and heartbreaking collection of essays on one broad..... More
University of North Carolina Press, February 1982. Cloth. Oblong quarto. {11 & 1/2' x 9' & 1/4'] Brown cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Brown end pages. Foxing scattered through internal pages. [117 pages]. More
University of California Press, October 2022. Paper Back. An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced..... More
Regan Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that..... More
Regan Books, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Personalized inscription on title page reads: 'To Tamara: My fellow bitch! Hollis'; dust jacket shows signs of light wearalong edges and corners, especially upper back corner and upper and lower spine; board covers show light shelf wear and corner bumping/rounding. More
University of Virginia Press, May 2015. Paper Back. This is a fascinating book that shifts perception of Oglethorpe's Savannah plan dramatically from that of a beautiful but essentially limited example of utopian design to an urban model fully representative of mainstream eighteenth-century intellectual thought. -Jack Williams, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2019. Hardcover. More
Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1990. First Edition. Cloth. Signed and inscribed by one of the authors, Clifford M. Kuhn on the half title page. More
Basic Books, May 2017. Hardcover. What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2022. Hardcover. A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap--a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli. From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by..... More
Viking, March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple--by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff..... More
The R. L. Bryan Co., 1982. First American. Cloth. {9 & 1/4' x 6 & 1/4'} Dustjacket is missing. Ash colored cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering on front panel & along spine. Lengthy inscription & signature covers front free end page entire. Tightly bound. Clean interiors. [370 pages]..... More
Mercer University Press, November 2008. Trade Paperback. This guide is organized around four walking and driving tours of the important civil rights sites in Atlanta from the 1940s to the present. It also contains historic and current photographs of most of the sites and provides information about how to reach..... More
Perseus Books, March 1996. Hardcover. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but even..... More
University of Georgia Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. The Leo Frank case of 1913 was one of the most sensational trials of the early twentieth century, capturing international attention. Frank, a northern Jewish factory supervisor in Atlanta, was convicted for the murder of Mary Phagan, a young laborer native to..... More
NewSouth Books, December 2022. Hardcover. Blighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta's grittiest corridors. From burnt-out, mold-infested buildings to traumatized classrooms, Blighted unfolds in the voices of ruthless drug dealers, phantom tenants, fearless..... More
The History Press, February 2021. Paper Back. Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the..... More
Ballantine Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, July 1994. Hardcover. Price-clipped. Non-authorial gift inscription on front pastedown. More
Spiegel & Grau, December 2009. Trade Paperback. The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Peachtree Pub Ltd, June 1997. Hardcover. A collection of the best works by the celebrated and much-beloved Southern columnist and writer, with introductions by some of Sibley's many prominent fans. From her early days as a reporter covering every possible beat to her creation of the Kate Mulcahy mysteries, this..... More
