Preston Lauterbach

Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told...with verve and vivid erudition." Wall Street Journal

Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South's first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built an underworld dynasty in the booming river town and created a space for black culture to flourish. A thrilling narrative history, Beale Street Dynasty tells an intriguing, previously unknown story about race in an American city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393246759
• Artikelnr.: 59591651

Autorenporträt

Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin' Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.