Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta - Hardcover
The contradictory history of Atlanta is viewed through the defining prism of race in the stories of two families, who grew up on opposite sides of the South's racial divide and who spawned two of Atlanta's most controversial mayors--Ivan Allen, Jr., and Maynard Jackson, Jr. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
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In Atlanta, a city hyped during the 1996 Olympics as the South's most progressive city, Peachtree Street is the main commercial avenue of white business power; Auburn Street, known as Sweet Auburn, is the old center of the city's black community. Their intersection is rather insignificant, a fact mirrored in the racial segregation that has always characterized Atlantan society. Pomerantz has traced the history of the city, and the development of race relations from the city's founding to the present day, through the experiences of two emblematic and influential families: that of Ivan Allen Jr., a white mayor in the 60's; and that of Maynard H. Jackson, the city's first black mayor. The result is a vividly humanized and objective history.
About the Author:
Gary M. Pomerantz is an author and journalist and serves as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. His first book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, was named a 1996 Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. He also earned acclaim for Nine Minutes; Twenty Seconds; and Wilt, 1962. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Pomerantz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their three children.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- ISBN 10 0788167081
- ISBN 13 9780788167089
- BindingHardcover
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