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Title: Kingsport Tennessee: A Planned American City by Margaret Ripley Wolfe ISBN: 0-8131-1624-4 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: November, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good overview of industrialization of small southern town
Comment: Kingsport's population peak during WWII has never returned again, despite a half century of growth by annexation. Professor Wolfe has done a very fine job of archival research and interviews to enlighten the reader. Though her survey is more critical, obviously, than a publication each decade of the 90's by the local Rotary Club, Wolfe ads the human element and anecdotal illustrations to complement the Rotary's advertising bent.

City builder J. Fred Johnson has become a legendary and almost apocrypha figure for this town in the foothills of Southern Appalachia. Middle class factory workers and country club executives dominated this city during the 20th century. But the 21 century has arrived as industrial downsizing is taking a toll.

Wolfe tells the true story as it really happened, 'warts and all.' Hopefully either Professor Wolfe or someone else will fill in more details and produce a future volume that fills in the gaps of the history of this city whose most prominent claim to fame is the hometown and idyllic setting of Lisa Alther's veiled trashy novel, "Kinflicks."