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A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. By Stephanie E. Yuhl. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv, 285 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2936-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5599-5.)
Academics may dominate the discourse about American history in classrooms and journals, but their voices sometimes bump up against the hard carapace of public memory, where common opinion and myths sometimes trump the findings of scholarly inquiry. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl explores the cultural issues that led to the transformation of the historical perception of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s and 1930s. Dismissed earlier as a listless and shabby port town, the city, with its old buildings and peculiar customs, shrugged off its indolence and provincialism and came to be seen as a charming refutation of modern industrial development. . . .
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