Nashville since the 1920s /

As part of Nashville's bicentennial anniversary, Doyle has written his second book on that city's history. Although this new book, like the previous study, Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930 (CH, Sep '85), was sponsored by the Century III Commission, it is clearly not a work of boosterism. The author has provided a careful, analytical study of Nashville's history since the 1920s, discussing all aspects of the city's development, e.g., cultural life, politics, economic growth, rural migration, suburbanization, and race relations. Doyle's work represents a needed case history that focuses on the forces of continuity and change evident in any 20th-century southern city. This conflict between tradition and transformation is the framework for his book. Public and undergraduate libraries.-R. Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology