Richmond is a city with a pedigree, a past that can be traced back to the first English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607.
Yet the focus of this volume is the twentieth century, which was, by all rights, America's century and Richmond's rebirth as a modern, changed city.
The closer Richmond moved toward the twentieth century, the more it seemed to be a city of archives and icons, the 'holy city' of the Confederacy, and an American industrial...