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Summary: Thorough and entertaining look at business, Nashville-style
Review: As a longtime former resident of Nashville, I found this book entertaining and thorough, as well as being--with a few exceptions--accurate and well-balanced in its painting of portraits of some very outsized and colorful (and controversial) business and civic leaders. As a lawyer and a reader generally interested in how the commercial life of a locale can affect it and its citizens at large, I was captivated. Anyone interested in either of these themes owes it to himself or herself to read this well crafted and highly readable work.
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Summary: Stories not told in typical Nashville histories
Review: If you are interested in the names that continually show up in Nashville business and social media, this book does a great job of filling you in on the background details. Carey has done a great job of making this history accessible, and for the most part enjoyable to read.
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Summary: If you work in Nashville you ought to read it
Review: Not originally from Nashville I often feel I need a score-card or a flow-chart to keep track of who is related to whom, who started what, and why so and so is somebody that everyone talks about. For a city of its size, Nashville seems to rival Byzantine Constantinople in terms of intrigue, personal connections, and "inside baseball" type politics.Bill Carey does an admirable job of breaking it all down for those who are interested. In general I found it very interesting and actually useful in my line of work. Unfortunately, it is also at times dense and tedious. Especially with the older histories he probably had only limited sources to rely upon and so some of the narrative reads like the minutes of a board meeting or a shiny prospectus. Nonetheless, for anyone in business, law, or politics in Nashville or anyone who is interested in Southern History I'd recommend the book. There is a new printing of the book, which can be found around Nashville. I won't say where so as to not offend Amazon.
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Summary: If you work in Nashville you ought to read it
Review: Not originally from Nashville I often feel I need a score-card or a flow-chart to keep track of who is related to whom, who started what, and why so and so is somebody that everyone talks about. For a city of its size, Nashville seems to rival Byzantine Constantinople in terms of intrigue, personal connections, and "inside baseball" type politics. Bill Carey does an admirable job of breaking it all down for those who are interested. In general I found it very interesting and actually useful in my line of work. Unfortunately, it is also at times dense and tedious. Especially with the older histories he probably had only limited sources to rely upon and so some of the narrative reads like the minutes of a board meeting or a shiny prospectus. Nonetheless, for anyone in business, law, or politics in Nashville or anyone who is interested in Southern History I'd recommend the book. There is a new printing of the book, which can be found around Nashville. I won't say where so as to not offend Amazon.
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