Maynard Jackson: A Biography By Dr. Robert A Holmes

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Biography has always been an important way to understand history and politics. Robert Holmes’s deeply researched and engagingly written biography of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African American mayor, tells the story of a man, a city, and a time that illuminates the difficulties African American mayors face trying to dismantle old systems of dominance and establish racially equalitarian urban regimes. Arguably, Jackson did a better job in this endeavor than any of the big city black mayors elected since the 1960s. Why he still fell considerably short is explained by Holmes in a brilliant interweaving of personality, philosophy, power, and racism in this outstanding study of a man and a city.