{"product_id":"9780615232065","title":"The Model City: Blast to Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Grady, who turned the Atlanta Constitution into a nationally prominent publication in a few short years, is credited with giving Anniston's newspaper its maiden name, The Hot Blast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration, we're told, came when Grady, in Anniston for a visit to this model city, noted the sparks shooting out from the company town's foundry. \"Hot Blast\" seemed like a nifty handle for a paper covering northeast Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Aug. 18, 2008, The Anniston Star, the descendant of The Hot Blast, celebrated its 125th birthday. The paper was not alone in hitting the big 1-2-5. In early July, the city of Anniston marked 125 years of existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Star has created something we believe worthy of the anniversary. The book is a compilation of five special newspaper sections examining The Model City's history and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt looks backwards, to Samuel Noble and Daniel Tyler's grand experiment at creating a different sort of company town, one that treated workers fairly, established a foundation for a high-functioning community and aspired to lift the South from its post-war doldrums. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to extract lessons from our past that can be applied to our future. The authors do this because we believes a community can't know where it's going until it's sure of where it's been. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe hope you will find The Model City informative and challenging, as bracing as the whoosh of warm air blowing out of an iron furnace.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Consolidated Publishing, Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046402932976,"sku":"9780615232065","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615232065_p0.jpg?v=1763597268","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615232065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}