"The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders and Atlanta's Black political leadership dared to bid on hosting the 1996 Olympic Games. Unexpectedly, the city won, an achievement that ignited a loose but robust coalition that worked collectively, if sometimes contentiously, to prepare the city and push it forward. This is a story of how once-struggling Atlanta leveraged the benefits of the Centennial Games to become a city of international prominence. This improbable rise from the ashes is told by three urban planning professionals who were at the center of the story."--Back cover.

The “intensively reported and fluidly written” true-crime account of the heroic security guard accused of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (Wall Street Journal). On July 27, 1996, security guard Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, the town square of the 1996 Summer Games. Inside was a bomb, the largest of its kind in FBI and ATF history. The bomb detonated amid a crowd of fifty thousand people. But thanks to Jewell, it only wounded 111 and killed two, not the untold scores who would have otherwise died. Yet seventy-two hours later, the FBI turned Jewell from a national hero into their main suspect. The decision not only changed Jewell’s life, it let the true bomber roam free to strike again. Today, most of what we remember of this tragedy is wrong. In a triumph of investigative journalism, former U.S. Attorney Kent Alexander and reporter Kevin Salwen reconstruct events before, during, and after the bombing. Drawn from law enforcement evidence and the extensive personal records of key players—including Richard himself—The Suspect, is a gripping story of domestic terrorism and an innocent man’s fight to clear his name.

100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC MUSIC details the integral part music has played in each Summer & Winter Olympiad since 1896 (including Atlanta). After the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, founder, French-born Baron Pierre de Coubertin, stated that "fashions have undergone many changes over two thousand years, but music has remained the factor which best conveys the emotion within a crowd, & which best accompanies the amplitude of a great spectacle." 100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC MUSIC includes an interview with John Williams completed in December of 1995 following the world premiere of his new official Centennial Olympic Theme "Summon the Heroes." This book also lists extensive references to music used in ceremonies & commissioned for special events surrounding the Games, including the early "Arts Competitors" & as accompaniments for various competitors. In addition you will find a discography of recordings made of Olympic music. To order contact: Golden Clef Publishing, 4365 Dudley Rd., Mantua, OH 44255, FAX 330-274-2577.