About the Author

Franklin M. Garrett was director of the Atlanta Historical Society and a member and curator of the Georgia Historical Society. The "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" once praised him as "a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history."

Reviews

Definitive . . . An exhaustive history of the city, which, in its faithful attention to minutiae, effectively captures the flavor of Atlanta.|A boon to the historian, the genealogist and to the average citizen who wants to fill himself in on the background of the leading Southeastern city.|A very competent and well-written history.|A very model of local historical writing . . . A history that will long stand as the definitive story of Atlanta.