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Beale Street Dynasty - Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (Hardcover)
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Beale Street Dynasty - Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (Hardcover)
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List price R697
Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save R159 (23%)
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Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis
thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred a
strip with unique soul that inspired folk legends, scandalized
Faulkner, and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells
this thrilling story through the life of the South s first black
millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church, who built an
underworld dynasty in the booming river town. With a compromised
fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his
son bankrolled the militant civil rights activism of Ida B. Wells,
furnished the venues where W. C. Handy invented the blues, and
built a powerful black political machine. Fighting to redeem
themselves and their city, these vice kings clashed with the forces
of Jim Crow to create a hotbed of black culture. Brilliantly
researched and swiftly plotted, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost
world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless
politicians on the fabled Memphis strip."
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