Atlanta Then Atlanta Now

Author : Michael Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571454744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlanta Then & Now written by Michael Rose and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South's leading city has changed greatly over the past 100 years, and this collection features archival photos and modern-day shots of each location, from Five Points to the State Capitol to Peachtree Street. 140 photos. 70 in color.

Author : Norman Shavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlanta Then, Atlanta Now written by Norman Shavin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Shavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlanta Then, Atlanta Now written by Norman Shavin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910719049
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Atlanta Then Atlanta Now written by Shavin and published by . This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Allen
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461661676
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlanta Rising written by Frederick Allen and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1996-05-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, the book offers up a rich menu of surprising new facts and fresh insights about their own hometown.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429960698
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man in Full written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Author : Michael Rose
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1909815640
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Atlanta written by Michael Rose and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid journey back into Atlanta's past revealing some of the city's most grievous losses to the wrecking ballOld theaters, hotels, ballparks, civic buildings, and the early transport system of Atlanta are recalled in this book written by an Atlanta historian and his colleagues at the Atlanta History Center. Listed in chronological order the losses stretch back to 1821 and the Creek Indians. Major events in Atlanta history are covered, such as the Civil War destruction of 1864, the Cotton States International Exposition of 1896, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 right though to 1996 and the dismantling of key venues after the 1996 Olympic Games. Sites include: Georgia State Capitol, Ponce de Leon Springs, Jacob's Pharmacy, Candler Race Track, Union Passenger Depot, Kimball House Hotel, Atlanta Crackers, Buttermilk Bottom, Hebrew Orphanage, Henry Grady Hotel, Plaza Park, 1904 Atlanta Terminal Station, The Omni, the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Fort Hood and the Ponder House, Pidemont Hotel, Lake Abana, the Howard Theatre, and ferries across the Chattahoochee.

Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094988
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City on the Verge written by Mark Pendergrast and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 highways, suburban sprawl, and a history of racial injustice. Yet it is also an energetic, brash young city that prides itself on pragmatic solutions. Today, the most promising catalyst for the city's rebirth is the BeltLine, which the New York Times described as "a staggeringly ambitious engine of urban revitalization." A long-term project that is cutting through forty-five neighborhoods ranging from affluent to impoverished, the BeltLine will complete a twenty-two-mile loop encircling downtown, transforming a massive ring of mostly defunct railways into a series of stunning parks connected by trails and streetcars. Acclaimed author Mark Pendergrast presents a deeply researched, multi-faceted, up-to-the-minute history of the biggest city in America's Southeast, using the BeltLine saga to explore issues of race, education, public health, transportation, business, philanthropy, urban planning, religion, politics, and community. An inspiring narrative of ordinary Americans taking charge of their local communities, City of the Verge provides a model for how cities across the country can reinvent themselves.

Author : Jeff Clemmons
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236208
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rich's written by Jeff Clemmons and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storied history of the iconic Atlanta department store. In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich's 137-year history. For the first time, learn the true stories behind Penelope Penn, Fashionata, The Great Tree, the Pink Pig, Rich's famous coconut cake and much more, including how events at the downtown Atlanta store helped John F. Kennedy become America's thirty-fifth president. With an eye for accuracy and exacting detail, Clemmons recounts the complete history of this treasured southern institution. “Jeff Clemmons offers an interesting, thoughtful and thorough history of how Morris Rich and his brothers and their family offered Atlanta legendary customer service generosity and goods, as well as lifetime of dedicated community action and investment.” —Mary Hood, author of How Far She Went “For the first time, Clemmons gives an accurate, matter-of-fact account of the civil rights movement in Atlanta as it pertains to crashing the gates of Rich's.” —Lonnie King, civil and human rights activist “An excellent new source of information about Atlanta's favorite store...well written. Well worth a read.” —Anthony Montag, great-grandson of Rich’s founder, Morris Rich

Author : Larry Keating
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904499
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlanta written by Larry Keating and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubling stories about private interests over public development in Atlanta.