 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
KATHARINE AND R. J. REYNOLDS
PARTNERS OF FORTUNE IN THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH |
| By: |
Michele Gillespie |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£22.95 |
| Our price: |
£21.80 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£1.15 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0820347221 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820347226 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 2016 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Despite its intrigue, the story of R. J. and Katharine Reynolds, the tobacco magnates, had never been fully told. Gillespie now provides a sweeping account of how one of the nation's most influential elite couples came together to shape the New South in an age of modernization and progressive reformation. |
| Synopsis: |
Separately they were formidable - together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850 - 1918) and Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880 - 1924) has never been fully told. Now Michele Gillespie provides a sweeping account of how R. J. and Katharine succeeded in realizing their American dreams. From relatively modest beginnings, R. J. launched the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which would eventually develop two hugely profitable products, Prince Albert pipe tobacco and Camel cigarettes. His marriage in 1905 to Katharine Smith, a dynamic woman thirty years his junior, marked the beginning of a unique partnership that went well beyond the family. As a couple, the Reynoldses conducted a far-ranging social life and, under Katharine's direction, built Reynolda House, a breathtaking estate and model farm. Providing leadership to a series of progressive reform movements and business innovations, they helped drive one of the South's best examples of rapid urbanization and changing race relations in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Together they became one of the New South's most influential elite couples. Upon R. J.'s death, Katharine reinvented herself, marrying a World War I veteran many years her junior and engaging in a significant new set of philanthropic pursuits. Katharine and R. J. Reynolds reveals the broad economic, social, cultural, and political changes that were the backdrop to the Reynoldses' lives. Portraying a New South shaped by tensions between rural poverty and industrial transformation, white working-class inferiority and deeply entrenched racism, and the solidification of a one-party political system, Gillespie offers a masterful life-and-times biography of these important North Carolinians. |
| Illustrations: |
49 black & white photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|