ATL

I finally finished reading Atlanta Rising - The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 by Frederick Allen. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend it to anyone that has lived in Atlanta or just wants to learn more about the history of the south's primary city. The book goes into detail about how the business power structure headed by Robert Woodruff of Coca-Cola drove many of the changes and how Atlanta was different than other southern cities during that time. Much of the book details the Civil Rights movement and illustrates that cool heads prevailed in Atlanta when the rest of the state was going in another direction.

My favorite quote from the book in regards to seeing the plans for 285, Ben Massell, the largest individual land owner in the city and brother of vice mayor Sam Massell said, "Like the Chicago loop! Everything on the inside, chicken salad! Everything on the outside, chicken shit!"

For my next read I'm going tackle The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, the updated edition that mentions Tech (see article) and Death of a Salesman.