Through black-and-white photographs selected from private holdings at the State Library and Archives, Looking Back at Tennessee takes readers on a pictorial journey down the path of contemporary Tennessee history and tells the story of Tennessee's coming of age. This fascinating book contains more than 170 images dating from the 1860s to the 1960s, each revealing subtle nuances of everyday life for Tennesseans during this pivotal century.

Looking back at Tennessee: A photographic retrospective

History

Moore, Wayne C

Americas

Hillsboro Press

On February 25, 1946 in Columbia, Tennessee, a minor disagreement occured between a white, politically connected store clerk and a black navy veteran and his mother. This incident led to the first race riot in the United States after the war. The riot, which took place in the black section of Columbia known as Mink Slide, fomented national outrage and involvement of numerous interested parties including Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, the NAACP, the Communist Party, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Chaos and legal resolution of the Columbia riot resulted in death, destruction, and surprising trial verdicts. Robert W. Ikard corroborates these events in No More Social Lynchings, the unofficial battle cry of the black community.

No More Social Lynchings

Robert W. Ikard

A new life for Toby

Rivers, Nancy Fowler

Justice in the Valley

Brake, Patricia E.

You Can't Fire Me I'm Your Father: What Every Family Business Should Know

Business & Money

Neil N. Koenig

Management & Leadership

Anne Wells Branscomb grew up in Georgia where she learned traditional social skills of southern women. These skills were the building blocks of her numerous professional successes. Considered ahead of her time, Anne coined the phrase information infrastructure in 1975, raised proprietary issues regarding the protection and ownership of information, and authored Who Owns Information? Using humor, satire, and wisdom, the book shares how she managed to successfully balance the demands of her profession while putting family first.

My Own Sense of Place: A Southern View with a Northern Exposure

Biographies & Memoirs

Branscomb, Anne Wells

Wells Branscomb, Anne

Community & Culture

The Sylvia Factor

McEwen, Lee R.

Military

The story of the long battle to approve importation of legally-harvested Canadian polar bear trophies taken by American hunters in Canada. The author was the leader of this effort, and succeeded, through a network of interested outdoorsmen, in getting two acts of Congress passed that amended the Marine Mammal Protection Act to specifically authorize this practice, which was demonstrate to Congress to be the best conservation of the species, and which passed Congress by unanimous consent both times it was brought up.

Impossible to Fail

J.Y. Jones

Through the ingenious use of combining science fiction with industry expertise, Stephen K. Klasko, a practicing physician, and Gregory P. Shea, Wharton faculty member and health-care consultant, pose this provocative question: What if a medical resident was abducted by aliens in 1985, and through advanced technology was imparted a full understanding of the health-care system of the future? Mila undergoes this phenomenal experience and her life changes forever as she discovers an exciting and improved future in medicine.

The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine

Literature & Fiction

Stephen K. Klasko

Gregory P. Shea

United States

Did Teddy Roosevelt really say that Maxwell House Coffee was “good to the last drop”? When did Nashville become Music City U.S.A.? What led to the federal investigation of Columbia/HCA? 
 Providing rare facts in reviewing Nashville’s past and present businesses, Fortunes, Fiddles, &amp; Fried Chicken, written by journalist Bill Carey, is a comprehensive account of the city’s history. 
 Carey includes the beginnings of Maxwell House Coffee and its marketing campaigns. He chronicles the National Life &amp; Accident Insurance Co., a business that helped Nashville become the home of country music and a major tourist destination. Carey also reveals the series of events resulting in a federal investigation of Columbia/HCA and the subsequent firing of the company’s CEO. 
 Other anecdotes and bottom-line analyses that Carey includes are the rise and fall of Caldwell &amp; Co., the bond-trading house led by Rogers Caldwell that almost single-handedly gave Nashville the nickname “Wall Street of the South”; a complete history of Genesco, an apparel giant led by Maxey Jarman that fell on hard times in the 1970s; and the bizarre saga of Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken, a company founded by brothers John Jay and Henry Hooker that went from a stock-market darling to a legendary failure in only a few months. 
 J.C. (Jimmy) Bradford Jr. is one of many people who remembers Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken, according to Carey. “People just went hog wild,” said Bradford. “I remember going to a cocktail party where John Jay walked in and there were about 10 people wanting to grab him because they wanted to get in.” 
 Fortunes, Fiddles, &amp; Fried Chicken also shares the life stories of people who founded and led Nashville companies, from Kentucky Fried Chicken and HCA cofounder Jack Massey to Third National Bank president Sam Fleming to H.G. Hill Sr., founder of H.G. Hill Food Stores. 
 In the words of H.G. Hill Stores Co. president, Wentworth Caldwell Jr., his grandfather H.G. Hill Sr. was the “kind of person who would get off a streetcar, turn to his employee and say, ‘We are going to build a store here! Get everybody out here! We are going to have that thing opened by Monday and by God that is what we are going to do.’” 
 John Egerton, author of Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, said of Carey’s book, “For a town that takes great pride in the quality of its business enterprises, Nashville has been surprisingly negligent about recording the stories of its biggest deals and dealmakers—the triumphs as well as the disasters. Bill Carey’s book dramatically changes all that.” 
 Carey said he hopes the book adds to Nashville’s sense of community and sense of identity. 
 “I hope that as people read the stories of entities such as DuPont, the United Methodist Publishing House, and the Nashville Bridge Co. they will become more proud of their hometown. But most importantly, I hope that this book helps the entrepreneurs and executives of the twenty-first century to avoid the mistakes of the past,” Carey said. 
 Carey is a native of Huntsville, Ala., and a former naval flight officer. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he has worked as a reporter for many publications since he moved to Tennessee in 1992. Carey lives in East Nashville with his wife and step-daughter. This is his first book.

Fortunes, Fiddles and Fried Chicken : A Business History of Nashville

Carey, Bill

Biography & History

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