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

by Preston Lauterbach

Book Overview

Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393082571
• ISBN13: 9780393082579
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"