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From post–Civil War political feuds to Depression-era mass murder—explore the criminally fascinating secret history of Music City, USA.
Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville’s darkest deeds in this compulsively readable chronicle of turn-of-the-century bad behavior.
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Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville’s darkest deeds in this compulsively readable chronicle of turn-of-the-century bad behavior.
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Murder's on the menu in this savory debut.
Gwen (nee Katz) Silver heard the brisket at her uncle's Jewish deli, Murray the Pastrami Swami—the only one of its kind in Nashville, Tennessee—was "to die for." But she didn't realize that meant literally. . .
When Gwen learns she's inherited Murray's, the native New Yorker leaves her chaotic career and messy divorce behind to start over in Nashville. But the venture seems doomed...
Gwen (nee Katz) Silver heard the brisket at her uncle's Jewish deli, Murray the Pastrami Swami—the only one of its kind in Nashville, Tennessee—was "to die for." But she didn't realize that meant literally. . .
When Gwen learns she's inherited Murray's, the native New Yorker leaves her chaotic career and messy divorce behind to start over in Nashville. But the venture seems doomed...
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The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Haynie Gourley on May 24, 1968, and the heart-stopping, controversial trial that riveted the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and caused a sensation during the summer of 1969. Set primarily amid the racial turmoil following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, the book traces the circumstances leading up to the killing of the popular,...
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On a February evening in 1975, Marica Trimble was delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood. She never returned home. A month later her body was found. Jeffrey Womack was a fifteen year old neighbor. He became the prime suspect in the crime and was the focus of a police investigation which followed him for over thirty years. In July 2009 Jerome Barrett, a serial rapist and murderer, was convicted of the crime by irrefutable DNA evidence. This...
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"Many people know Nashville for the bright lights and nonstop music, but it also has a history that doesn’t make it into the guidebooks. The first public hanging in the city took place in 1802 when Henry Beeler and Samuel Carman were executed for horse theft and larceny. The Briley and Bates families held a deadly feud in Cane Ridge near the turn of the century. Frank and Jesse James returned to Tennessee in the summer of 1877 to lay low after a...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 Nov. 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. During the interview, Douglass discusses life in Madison and Nashville, Tenn.; his family; his mother's medical treatment; attending medical school and practicing medicine in Nashivlle; his service during World War II; and a story involving the murder...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of two scrapbooks and a few additional unbound pages of newspaper clippings compiled by Edwin A. Price, who served as Nashville's City Attorney (circa late 1890s-circa 1902) and later as the Attorney General for Davidson County (circa 1902-circa 1906). The bound volumes, spanning January 6, 1899, through October 6, 1899, include numerous articles about the legal battles between railroads and streetcar companies...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Angelo Anderson and his daughter Angela Anderson Jones, conducted on the 21 Oct. 1986 by John Egerton as part of the Homecoming '86 oral history project. Topics discussed during the interview include Anderson's birth, family, and early life in Greece and his immigration to the United States in 1901; his business activities in Nashville, including a shoeshine business and Candyland (7th Avenue and...