Nashville Burning

by Gerald Duff

Book Overview

Nashville Burning is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. In the first, after an event at Vanderbilt University featuring Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg, and Strom Thurmond, riots broke out in North Nashville, and that part of town burst into flame--as did self-satisfied notions about civil order and structure in Nashville and the South. The next April, after the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875657109
• ISBN13: 9780875657103
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"