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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
The Promise of the New South Life After Reconstruction
Author: Edward L. Ayers
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technol...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195037562
ISBN-10: 0195037561
Publication Date: 9/17/1992
Pages: 572
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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