Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta

There is an intersection in Atlanta where two worlds meet. On the one hand, there are the gleaming skyscrapers of Peachtree Street, where Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell lived & died; & on the other, there are the Reconstruction-era churches of Auburn Ave., where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once preached & is now entombed. This book is the biography of Atlanta as told through two of its most prominent & elite families -- one white, one black -- as they ascend over five generations on opposite sides of a segregated city to produce the two most controversial mayors of the New South: Ivan Allen, Jr., & Maynard Jackson. Photos.Pomerantz, Gary M. is the author of 'Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta', published 1999 under ISBN 9780788167089 and ISBN 0788167081.