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Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
The History Press, May 2021. Paper Back. The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2024. Paper Back. First published in 1974, Black Majority marked a breakthrough in our understanding of early American history. Today, Wood's insightful study remains more relevant and enlightening than ever. This landmark book chronicles the crucial formative years of North America's wealthiest and most..... More
Thunder Bay Press, May 2001. Oversized Hardcover. Atlanta Then and Now is a captivating chronicle of history and change since the dawn of the camera age. It pairs historic photographs, many over a century old, with specially commissioned views of the same scene as it exists today showing the evolution..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian..... More
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... 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
University of Texas Press, August 1985. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Green boards are a tad soiled. Jacket shows soiling, toning, chipping but is complete. Wrapped for future preservation. Internally clean. Always a scarce book, getting scarcer. More
Milestone Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Outdoor leader and educator Jonah McDonald shows the way to discovering hiking in Atlanta's canopy-covered green spaces in this guide that recommends 60 hikes within 30 miles of Georgia's Capitol dome. Ranging from less than a mile to more than 12 miles, routes are..... More
The History Press, March 2023. Paper Back. Atlanta Record Stores is an oral history of the city's rock music scene, as witnessed through the lens of Criminal Records, Fantasyland, Wax 'N' Facts, and many more. This is a rock-centric take on a town that's so often praised and admired around..... More
Anchor, August 1975. Trade Paperback. First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and..... More
Anchor Books/ Doubleday, March 1972. Trade Paperback. In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her..... More
Ecco, January 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson..... More
Hub City Press, April 2017. Trade Paperback. In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing..... More
Arcadia Publishing, June 2023. Trade Paperback. Georgia and the Power of the Vote traces the history of Georgia's enfranchisement and its influence on American politics from 1865 to 2023. Since Reconstruction, Georgia's enfranchisement history has captured the nation's attention. During multiple waves, massive voter registration, mobilization, and suppression efforts were..... More
Basic Books. Hardcover. The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca ? Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital..... More
Warner Books, 1992-09-01. Trade Paperback. Precursor to Flagg's bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, this coming of age story is taken from Daisy's journal. 2 cassettes. More
Harvard University Press, July 2020. Hardcover. Winner of the Bancroft Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink..... More
Legacy Lit, January 2024. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...meticulous research" and bestselling..... More
Arcadia Publishing, June 2023. Trade Paperback. Georgia and the Power of the Vote traces the history of Georgia's enfranchisement and its influence on American politics from 1865 to 2023. Since Reconstruction, Georgia's enfranchisement history has captured the nation's attention. During multiple waves, massive voter registration, mobilization, and suppression efforts were..... More
Emons Publishers, April 2023. Trade Paperback. - The ultimate insider's guide to Atlanta - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides- Part of the international 111 Places/Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market..... More
Citadel, February 2024. Hardcover. Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story--sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking--of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the wife no one knew..... More
University of Georgia Press, September 2005. Trade Paperback. "With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused of these crimes. I did not commit them. I'm an innocent man." In 1983 Calvin C. Johnson Jr. spoke these words to a judge who later handed down a life sentence for..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2023. Hardcover. Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man..... More
Random House Inc, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman..... More