Henry Grady's New South [electronic resource] : Atlanta, a brave and beautiful city / Harold E. Davis.

ISBN:

9780817382742

Title:

Author:

Davis, Harold E., 1927-1997.

Personal Author:

Davis, Harold E., 1927-1997.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Grady and the Atlanta Constitution; 3. Politics and the Atlanta Ring: 1880-1886; 4. Politics and the Farmers; 5. The Politics of Race; 6. Development and Reconciliation; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Personal Subject:

Grady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889.

Subject Term:

Politicians -- Southern States -- Biography.

Journalists -- Georgia -- Biography.

Agriculture -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

Georgia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.

Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1990

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Summary

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 promised industrialization for the South, an improved Southern agriculture, and justice and opportunity for black Southerners. As managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution , he espoused the New South throughout the nation and was in demand as a speaker for audiences in New York and Boston. Through extensive research, focusing on the decade of the 1880s in Georgia, Davis demonstrates that although Grady said all the right things to show that he wished to industrialize the South and that he was committed to the improvement of agriculture and fairness in racial matters, in fact he spent most of his efforts on behalf of Atlanta. His major interest was in making a difference for that city, leaving the rest of the South to enjoy whatever Atlanta could not garner for itself.

Author Notes

Harold E. Davis is Research Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Few individuals are more closely associated with the emergence of Atlanta from the ashes of the Civil War than Henry Grady. At once a journalist, politician, promoter, and businessman, Grady made Atlanta and Atlanta's urban success preeminent among his activities. Grady was not averse to journalistic license if it helped his adopted city. A close associate of Georgia's "bourbon triumvirate," Grady used The Atlanta Constitution to make certain that Atlanta secured the benefits of political alliance; personal enrichment was secondary. Davis demonstrates a breadth of secondary reading and careful research into the life of Grady and the Atlanta that he promoted. The book is organized into several thematic chapters that concentrate on Grady's last decade; included are discussions of race, business promotion, and politics. Largely a regional figure, Grady was achieving national prominence when he died at the youthful age of 39 in 1889. This book is not a traditional biography of one man, nor is it really a study in urban history. Rather, Davis has tried to write both but does not entirely succeed at either. Much careful research and good insight into the life of late 19th century Georgia is lost because of this absence of clear purpose. -T. F. Armstrong, Georgia College