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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family Paperback - 1997

by Gary M. Pomerantz


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"A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveals about ambition, hard work, success, and race relations."—David Levering Lewis.

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A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveals about ambition, hard work, success, and race relations.--David Levering Lewis.

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In the upper chain of the Great Smokies along the Appalachian range, where a heavy limestone base makes the soil fertile for livestock farming, the father, grandfather and great-grandfather of Ivan Allen, Sr., were born and flourished.

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  • Title Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
  • Author Gary M. Pomerantz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 688
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date May 1, 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780140265095 / 0140265090
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.5 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.81 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Atlanta (Ga.), Dobbs family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96010399
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Gary M. Pomerantz, historian, journalist and Stanford University lecturer, is the author of six nonfiction books on topics ranging from history to sports to civil rights. His first, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, on Atlanta's racial conscience, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He also authored WILT, 1962, about Wilt Chamberlain's legendary 100-point game (a New York Times Editors' List selection), Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds, about an aviation crash, and The Devil's Tickets about a Jazz Age murder and trial. His most recent book, Their Life's Work, a narrative about the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, explores football's gifts and costs. For the past twelve years, he has taught reporting and writing at Stanford's Graduate Program in Journalism.
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