Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South

by William Bruce Wheeler

Book Overview

This third edition of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South includes a new preface and a valuable new chapter covering the period from the death of Cas Walker to the end of the administration of Madeline Rogero, Knoxville's first female mayor.

Wheeler argues that, until very recently, like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (1925), Knoxvillians had fabricated for themselves a false history, portraying themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621905799
• ISBN13: 9781621905790
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"