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Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
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Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
Reviews (10)
27 August 2015Well written and thoroughly researched. Greatly appreciated Gillespie's scholarly ...
Well written and thoroughly researched.
29 January 2015Four Stars
I enjoyed it...
27 May 2014What about the epidemic of lung cancer they caused?
Professor Gillespie celebrates the formation of a tobacco empire that led to the deaths of some 400,000 Americans every year for decades.
25 January 2014Great Read
Having grown up in Winston-Salem this book was of particular interest to me.
18 January 2014Lackluster
This book repeats things found in other books about the same people; the facts, the photographs and the conclusions are basically the same as other books.
24 June 2013Interesting
Living in Winston-Salem, we had to read about the Reynolds family.
4 February 2013R. J. Reynolds
The read was a little draggy in places, but it was an interesting story.
19 January 2013Reynolds
The book is well written, however, it has the feel of a text book and it is not difficult to speculate that it will be required reading for a history class or college level class discussing the timing and cultural significance of the era..
28 December 2012An Insider's Perspective
For anyone interested in the South, modern Southern culture, feminism and racism in the new South, the history of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the impact of industrialism on the early twentieth century South, this book is a must read.
30 October 2012Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
With at least some memory of the blood, sweat, tears and just plain hard work supplied by generations of North Carolinians represented by the state's obsolete tobacco barns and adaptively-reused auction warehouses, by \"Winston's\" refurbished-for-new-uses tobacco factories, and by the preserved finery of the former Reynolds family estate in Winston-Salem known as Reynolda, readers should have serious historical interest in two people who are among the most visible icons of tobacco culture in the American South, Richard Joshua Reynolds and Katharine Smith Reynolds.