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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He revealshow the underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton.
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