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(2.5) | Keine | Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta's famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. William Bailey Williford portrays the many personalities that shaped Peachtree Street and describes the social, civic, and business life that flourished along the busy corridor.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. To MRS. LUTHER WILLIFORD whose tales of "old Atlanta" inspired this story about its best known street | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Prologue A gentle snow was falling as the stranger walked slowly past the ornate bulk of a once elegant hotel. | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta's famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. William Bailey Williford portrays the many personalities that shaped Peachtree Street and describes the social, civic, and business life that flourished along the busy corridor. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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It's an intriguing idea: Take a city's most noteworthy road and build a history about it. It didn't work very well for me, though. There were too many names thrown about, and too few connections between people and houses and events. To be sure, I am not a resident of Atlanta, so there may be things that are obvious to residents that I just don't know. Worse, I think, is the fact that the book is now very out of date -- although Peachtree Street is still there, Atlanta has changed a lot, with many buildings that stood when this book was written having been torn down, and traffic patterns utterly changed by freeways. The result is that a lot of the anecdotes don't, er, lead anywhere.
And, let's remember, it's a book written by a southerner in the early 1960s. There are no overt indications of racism or sexism, but they seem to be there underneath it all. There is no questioning of the institutions that built the Jim Crow south. There are approving references to the Confederacy and Confederates. This is a Fine Old Southern Gentleman writing about Fine Old Southern Gentlemen and Ladies.
That might not bother you. But it made me fairly uncomfortable. Combine that with the fact that I was always getting, as it were, lost, and I found this a very difficult book to work through. ( )