Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City

by Harold E. Davis

Book Overview

The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business and agricultural competition. Biographies and collections of Grady's essays and speeches that appeared shortly after his death enhanced this image, and for a half-century, Grady was considered the personification of the New South Movement, a movement which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304541
• ISBN13: 9780817304546
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.