Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South

by William Bruce Wheeler

Book Overview

Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South is much more than an update to the 1983 edition; it is virtually a complete rethinking of its predecessor as well as an updating of Knoxville's story from the 1982 World's Fair to the death of the nearly legendary Cas Walker. In this new edition, Wheeler argues that, like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (1925), Knoxvillians have fabricated for themselves a false history, portraying themselves and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572333367
• ISBN13: 9781572333369
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"