Knoxville, Tennessee

Know about the book -

Knoxville, Tennessee is written by William Bruce Wheeler and published by Univ Tennessee Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1572333359 (ISBN 10) and 9781572333352 (ISBN 13).

"In this new edition, Wheeler argues that, like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (1925), Knoxvillians have fabricated for themselves a false history, portraying themselves and their city as the almost impotent victims of historical forces that they could neither alter nor control. The result of this myth, Wheeler says, is a collective mentality of near-helplessness against the powerful forces of isolation, poverty, and even change itself. But Knoxville's past is far more complicated than that, for the city contained abundant material goods and human talent that could have been used to propel Knoxville into the ranks of the premier cities of the New South - if those assets had not slipped through the fingers of both the leaders and the populace.