Princeton Univ Pr, September 2005. Hardcover. The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the..... More
Princeton University Press, July 2007. Trade Paperback. The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where..... More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
Chattahoochee Review, January 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very light soiling on the white cover. Small scar (less than one inch) on the fore edge of the front cover. Text unmarked and binding tight on this increasingly hard to find title. First edition. More
Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books, June 2023. Unknown. Welcome to the world of mushrooms! A Field Guide to the Mushrooms of Georgia is the first highly illustrated, comprehensive mushroom field guide dedicated to the entire state of Georgia. Written in a relaxed style and using terminology that is easily accessible for..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Scribner, January 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta braced for chaos while preparing to host King's funeral. An unlikely alliance of former student radicals, the middle-aged patrician mayor, the no-nonsense..... 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
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
The University of North Carolina Press, August 2019. Paper Back. For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, August 2019. Paper Back. For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and..... More
Longstreet Press, May 2000. Hardcover. The former White House chief-of-staff recalls his youth in the civil rights-era South, his years in Washington during the Carter administration, and his battle with three different types of cancer. Clean, tight copy. More
Peachtree Pub Ltd, 1980. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with sunned spine. Lightly stained jacket. Off white cloth coveed boards with black lettering on spine and stamped black illustration on front board. Also some foxing and dust stains to boards.[181 pages]. More
Scribner, May 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Top edge of text block a bit soiled. Bottom edge of boards have a couple of small white paint stains. More
University of Georgia Press, August 2023. Paper Back. Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta's ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city's variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political..... More
University Press of Kansas, October 1989. Trade Paperback. From the end of Georgia's white primary in 1946 to the present, Atlanta has been a community of growing black electoral strength and stable white economic power. Yet the ballot box and investment money never became opposing weapons in a battle for..... More
George Peabody College for Teachers, 1927. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Heavily worn. Darkened at margins. Library catalogue number on small white label affixed to lower left corner of front cover. Re-enforced by clear tape, now darkened with age. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Presented to the Atlanta Historical Society by Stiles..... More
