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Beale Street Dynasty Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

Lauterbach Preston
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780393352139
Publisert
2016-03-07
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Vekt
359 gr
Høyde
211 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Lauterbach Preston

Om bidragsyterne

Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin’ Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.

Beale Street Dynasty Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

Lauterbach Preston
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
Lauterbach Preston
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
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"...a highly enjoyable account...The minute attention to detail suggests painstaking research, but a discreet and likeable authorial presence is maintained throughout."

- Times Literary Supplement,

"Adds a fascinating chapter to civil rights history."

- The New York Times Book Review,

"All aspects of this complex, fascinating history are told… with verve and vivid erudition."

- Tom Nolan - The Wall Street Journal,

Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred—a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church. With a compromised fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his son bankrolled militant civil rights activism, furnished the venues where W.C. Handy invented the blues and built a powerful black political machine. Fighting to redeem themselves and their city, these vice kings clashed with the forces of Jim Crow to create a hotbed of black culture. Brilliantly researched, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams and ruthless politicians.
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"...a highly enjoyable account...The minute attention to detail suggests painstaking research, but a discreet and likeable authorial presence is maintained throughout."

- Times Literary Supplement,

"Adds a fascinating chapter to civil rights history."

- The New York Times Book Review,

"All aspects of this complex, fascinating history are told… with verve and vivid erudition."

- Tom Nolan - The Wall Street Journal,

Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred—a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church. With a compromised fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his son bankrolled militant civil rights activism, furnished the venues where W.C. Handy invented the blues and built a powerful black political machine. Fighting to redeem themselves and their city, these vice kings clashed with the forces of Jim Crow to create a hotbed of black culture. Brilliantly researched, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams and ruthless politicians.
Les mer
The dramatic rise and fall of Beale Street, the legendary Memphis thoroughfare that shook American culture.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780393352139
Publisert
2016-03-07
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co; WW Norton & Co
Vekt
359 gr
Høyde
211 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Lauterbach Preston

Om bidragsyterne

Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin’ Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.

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