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Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980

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Imagine a history book which deals with one of the hardest and most riveting periods of world history. Imagine it written in an accessible and entertaining style. Imagine that it brings home the hopes, fears, sufferings and achievements of real people, that it be sensitive and analytical of their predicaments and responses, that it rests on hundreds of hours of interviews, thousands of reading and more of careful preperation. Imagine all this and you will be ready for Beyond Atlanta.

Stephen Tuck has written fantastic book accessible to the scholar and student and a must for any Georgian (indeed American) interested in their past. The quality of his research and writing sets new standards for historians. The scope of a work which covers a state, in urban and rural, in its detail and its broader implications deserves to be imitated.

But perhaps the crowning achievement of this book is that it is so interesting. There are hundreds of thousands of scholalry peices attracting dust on library shelves which are not really missed. Here is a book on a vital topic which both needs to be read and is so eminently readable. This is history brought home, a story that must be told, told superbly well.