Product Description: Filled with images from Atlanta's archives, this short history features the personalities and locales of the economic and cultural capital of the Southeast. At its founding in 1837, Atlanta was filled with saloons and brothels, such that it was more like an Old West frontier town than a white-gloved city of the Old South. Highlighting the city's rebirth from the devastation of the Atlanta Campaign to its renaissance beginning in the 1960s, Atlanta's troubling racialized past is underscored, and the city's historically rich neighborhoods, including Ansley Park, Buckhead, and Druid Hills, are celebrated.
Great Survey Text on Atlanta Andy Ambrose does a great job with this survey text on the history of Atlanta. It covers Atlanta from the very start up through the current day. I would recommend this book to any one who wants to learn the history of the city "too busy too hate."
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