num_pages: 384
description: "All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told…with verve and vivid erudition." ― Wall Street Journal Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built an underworld dynasty in the booming river town and created a space for black culture to flourish. A thrilling narrative history, Beale Street Dynasty tells an intriguing, previously unknown story about race in an American city. 22 photographs; map
language: English
title: Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company