Historic Fayette County

Historic Fayette County PDF Author: Carolyn C. Cary
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Historic Fayette County

Historic Fayette County PDF Author: Carolyn C. Cary
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints PDF Author:
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1160

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City–County Consolidation

City–County Consolidation PDF Author: Suzanne M. Leland
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 158901622X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Although a frequently discussed reform, campaigns to merge a major municipality and county to form a unified government fail to win voter approval eighty per cent of the time. One cause for the low success rate may be that little systematic analysis of consolidated governments has been done. In City–County Consolidation, Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier compare nine city–county consolidations—incorporating data from 10 years before and after each consolidation—to similar cities and counties that did not consolidate. Their groundbreaking study offers valuable insight into whether consolidation meets those promises made to voters to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of these governments. The book will appeal to those with an interest in urban affairs, economic development, local government management, general public administration, and scholars of policy, political science, sociology, and geography.

Goldenseal

Goldenseal PDF Author:
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Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Books in Print

Books in Print PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2132

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A Tough Little Patch of History

A Tough Little Patch of History PDF Author: Jennifer W. Dickey
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 161075543X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell’s novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have melded with the broader forces of southern history, southern mythology, and marketing to become, and remain, a cultural phenomenon. A Tough Little Patch of History (the phrase was coined by a journalist in 1996 to describe the Margaret Mitchell home after it was spared from destruction by fire) explores how Gone with the Wind has remained an important component of public memory in Atlanta through an analysis of museums and historic sites that focus on this famous work of fiction. Jennifer W. Dickey explores how the book and film threw a spotlight on Atlanta, which found itself simultaneously presented as an emblem of both the Old South and the New South. Exhibitions produced by the Atlanta History Center related to Gone with the Wind are explored, along with nearby Clayton County’s claim to fame as “the Home of Gone with the Wind,” a moniker bestowed on the county by Margaret Mitchell’s estate in 1969. There’s a recounting of the saga of “the Dump,” the tiny apartment in midtown Atlanta where Margaret Mitchell wrote the book, and how this place became a symbol for all that was right and all that was wrong with Mitchell’s writing.

AB Bookman's Weekly

AB Bookman's Weekly PDF Author:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday PDF Author: Gary L. Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118130979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays

Fayette County

Fayette County PDF Author: Frank Lotto
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Category : Fayette County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Forthcoming Books

Forthcoming Books PDF Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1896

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