EXCLUSIVE: Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown) has optioned the rights to Gary M. Pomerantz’s bestselling nonfiction book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and The Making of Atlanta to adapt for television.In Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, Pomerantz traces five generations of two of Atlanta’s defining political family dynasties – the Allens, descending from slave owners, and the Dobbses, descending from slaves.
These families produced the two most influential Mayors of the modern South, Ivan Allen Jr., and Maynard Jackson Jr.Through interviews and research, Pomerantz shows how the families rose to social, economic, and political prominence but also demonstrates how their compelling lives
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