Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis

Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis tells the forgotten story of the man who transformed a frontier settlement on a Mississippi River bluff into the thriving city of Memphis. This first full-length biography of Memphis's founding father explores ambition, race, politics, and identity in early Tennessee, uncovering a chapter of Southern history that shaped the nation.

Marcus Winchester (1796-1856) devoted his life to transforming the small settlement on the fourth Chickasaw...