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Marie Boozer (1846 - 1908) was a beautiful, brilliant, and notorious strawberry blonde who established a remarkable life. Above all, she was human-complete with foibles and attributes beyond the stereotypical perception held by the public. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer is her first full-length biography and reveals the true, redemptive story of a young belle from South Carolina who transformed into a scandalous divorcee in New York and London, a Paris courtesan defying police authority, and ultimately a countess and world citizen-while her...

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami from 1865 to 1950. In the decades following the Civil War, painters, sculptors, photographers, and illustrators in these municipalities employed their talents to articulate concepts of the New South, aestheticism, and Gilded Age opulence and to construct a visual culture far beyond providing pretty pictures in public buildings and statues in city squares.
As Deborah C. Pollack investigates New...