Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 [Hardcover]

Frederick Allen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 25, 1996 | ISBN-10: 1563522969 | ISBN-13: 978-1563522963

For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, the book offers up a rich menu of surprising new facts and fresh insights about their own hometown.

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Allen, who spelled out the Coca Cola company's recipe for success in Secret Formula (LJ 8/94), here provides a fascinating account of Atlanta's social, political, and economic history over the last 50 years. Allen's behind-the-scenes glimpse into the negotiations that bought the Olympics to Atlanta is merely the icing on the cake. Regional and large collections should consider.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 290 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (May 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563522969
• ISBN-13: 978-1563522963
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fine reporting, January 23, 2001

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Michael Lewyn (Forest Hills, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 (Hardcover)

A good, somewhat objective guide to the history of Atlanta over the last 50 years, the sort of book that describes every mayoral election in detail. More boosterish about Atlanta than I would have been, perhaps because of the timing (i.e. right before the Olympics). Not nearly as much analysis as reporting, and not as much discussion of Atlanta's failures (e.g. why do Atlantans drive 34 miles a day? Why is Atlanta's crime rate after 10 years of decline as high as New York's in the bad old days of the early 90s?). But there are plenty of books on Atlanta that supply a more critical perspective (e.g. Bullard's Sprawl City).

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Poingant, insightful, and inspiring, August 17, 1999

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This review is from: Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 (Hardcover)

As a native Atlantan who is fully aware of the city's rich history, Frederick Allen's book opned my eyes to the breakneack, full throttle, tight-rope-walking nature of her growth. The book describes in entratining but expert fashion the chain of events that brought Atlanta into the international spotlight so quickly and so successfully. The relationships among Atlanta's decision makers and the backroom deals that shaped the city are fascinating and engaging as put forth by Allen.

This is a great book for anyone interested in Atlanta and how it became what it is at the end of the twentieth century.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CAPITOL OF THE NEW SOUTH, January 16, 2007

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Shannon Deason (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 (Hardcover)

Atlanta is an amazing success story, this city was on the ropes in the seventies, it was going the way of Memphis, Birmingham, and New Orleans, then, Atlanta's white business elite and it's black majority decided to work together, and Atlanta become the capitol of the new south, rising like a Pheonix from the ashes of racial striff and economic stagnation, with the help of fortune 500,Coca Cola and Delta, and forward thinking mayors like Hartsfeld, Young, and Jackson. The rise of Atlanta is not just a great southern story, it's a great American story, as New Orleans tries to pick up the ashes of a one proud city, it should look to Atlanta, though if history is any indication it won't, that's why half of New Orleans population is in the two most succesful southern cities, Houston and....Atlanta.