American Beach

How 'Progress' robbed a black town-and nation-of history, wealth, and power.

Avoiding the easy cliches of victimization and oppression, award-winning journalist Russ Rymer brings to life the stark conflict between whites and blacks in the United States today. Through three connected lives in and around northeast Florida's black resort town of American Beach - an unarmed black motorist was killed by a white policeman, the great-granddaughter of Florida's first black millionaire, who lives on the beach with next to nothing; and prominent Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston- Rymer presents a vision of a nation where the futures of both races are as linked as their histories, where the lost record of heroic black enterprise and prominence offers a key to the struggles of every modern American.

"Compelling and refreshing, but don't underestimate its shock value." -Emerge

2-33344, Russ Rymer, HarperPerennial, Copyright 1998, paperback, 337 pages, 0060930896, 5 1/4" x 8"