Shelf Life: ‘The Nation Guide to the Nation’ edited by Richard Lingeman
Like a Zagat or Places To See guidebook for unabashed liberals.
GENRE: Like a Zagat or Places To See guidebook for unabashed liberals
REASONS TO HAVE THIS BOOK: Ever fretted over finding the best summer camp for your leftist children? Looking for a worker-owned, unionized strip bar? Want to eat at Studs Turkel’s favorite restaurant? The Nation Guide has you covered.
GEORGIA: Not exactly the most prominent location in the book, but we’re not off the map, either.
MANUEL’S TAVERN: Atlanta’s most revered liberal hangout is given a short but loving bio. The Nation’s version omits that Manuel’s son (and the bar’s current owner) Brian Maloof, is rumored to have some Republican leanings.
DID YOU KNOW? Eugene Debs, famed union organizer, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and founder of the IWW, lived in Atlanta from April 1919 until the end 1921. While in Atlanta, Debs ran for president and received over six percent of the popular vote, the highest ever for a Socialist Party candidate. Want to visit his old house? It’s the United States Penitentiary on McDonough Boulevard.