Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Race And Family: A Saga of Race and Family - Softcover

Pomerantz, Gary M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140265090 ISBN 13: 9780140265095

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this southern city. In "Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn," Gary M. Pomerantz, a reporter for the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution," traces five generations of two families - the Allens, descended from slave owners, and the Dobbses, from slaves. These families produced the two most influential mayors of the modern South, Ivan Allen, Jr., and Maynard Jackson, Jr.

About this title

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.

Synopsis:

Examines the history of Atlanta 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140265090
• ISBN 13: 9780140265095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688