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• Georgia Legends & Lore

  Brown, Alan, 1950 January 12-

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  Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement.

• Top Dawgs

  The Georgia Bulldogs' Remarkable Road to the National Championship

  Atlanta journal-constitution (COR)

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  TOP DAWGS is the complete story of Georgias unforgettable 2021 football season and first national championship since 1980. This commemorative book features stunning action photography, stories and analysis from The Atlanta…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fortune and Folly

  the Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire

  Butler, Sara A. H.,

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  Nestled in the outskirts of Atlanta, in a suburb called Druid Hills, lies Briarcliff Mansion. It sits on Briarcliff Road in the Briarcliff neighborhood, surrounded by strip malls and business with Briarcliff in their names. The mansion and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abandoned Coastal Georgia

  Meacham, Paul

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  Through artistic documentary photography, Paul Meacham unveils the hidden history of Georgia's coast, from the terrible legacy of slavery, disease, and warfare, through millionaires, lumber booms, and the automobile era. Discover ghost…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• For God, Country & Coca-Cola

  the Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It

  Pendergrast, Mark

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  From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the ultimate symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loserville

  How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta-and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports

  Trutor, Clayton,

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  Loserville examines the pursuit, arrival, and response to professional sports in Atlanta during its first decade as a major league city (1966-75).

• Red Hot City

  Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-first Century Atlanta

  Immergluck, Daniel,

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  An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.

• Against All Odds

  the Atlanta Braves' Improbable Journey to the 2021 World Series

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  The Atlanta Braves are 2021 World Series Champions! The Atlanta Braves have been fixtures in the postseason in recent franchise history, with six playoff berths and four NL East titles in the last decade. The big breakthroughs had been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City on the Verge

  Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

  Pendergrast, Mark

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  Acclaimed author Mark Pendergrast presents a deeply researched, multi-faceted, up-to-the-minute history of the biggest city in America's Southeast, using the BeltLine saga to explore issues of race, education, public health,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warm Springs Story

  Legacy & Legend

  Harmon, F. Martin, 1951-

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  From Native American legends to resort era beginnings, from direct involvement by elite families of West Georgia to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's forty-one visits to his adopted state, and from the amazing polio generation and one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seeking Eden

  a Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens

  Catron-Sullivan, Staci,

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  Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia's rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Herndons

  An Atlanta Family

  Merritt, Carole

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  Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red clay fields of Georgia. Within forty years of Emancipation, however, he had amassed a fortune that far surpassed that of his White…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Play It Again, Sam

  the Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta's First Minority Mayor

  McNair, Charles

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  In 1969, Sam Massell was elected the first Jewish mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Politically, Massell changed Atlanta's City elections to nonpartisan, created Atlanta's Urban Design Commission, allowed Muhammad Ali to fight when fifty other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rap Capital

  An Atlanta Story

  Coscarelli, Joe,

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  From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music. But this flashy and fast-paced world is rarely seen below surface-level as a collection not of superheroes and villains, cartoons and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Untamed

  the Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

  Harlan, Will

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  Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abandoned Atlanta

  Echoes of a Stories Past

  Hagerman, Jeff,

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  From the places where Atlantans paid their power bills to the high school that Martin Luther King Jr. attended, Hagerman has captured some of the city's rich history that has been neglected for decades. Follow him as he explores and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Flight

  Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

  Kruse, Kevin M., 1972-

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  The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

  Clemmons, Jeff,

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  In 1884, several leading citizens purchased 577 acres to open Atlanta's Westview Cemetery. The rolling terrain, part of which was a site in the Civil War battle of Ezra Church, became the final resting place for more than 100,000 people.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery

  An Illustrated History and Guide

  Davis, Ren, 1951-

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  In Atlanta and Environs , historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past and the present." Within its forty-eight acres are more than seventy thousand personal stories--of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dooley

  My 40 Years at Georgia

  Dooley, Vince, 1932-2022

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  ince Dooley -- the player, the coach, the administrator, the legend -- is finally ready to tell his story. Georgia's prodigal son got his start on the rough end of Mobile, Alabama, where he used football as a springboard to an incredible…Read moreRead more of this annotation