Not since Sherman has anyone targeted Atlanta to such savage effect. Rutheiser's unsparing portrait of "the capital of the New South" shows that the carpetbaggers never left-they just became City Fathers, along with an unsavory collection of klansmen, hucksters, moneylenders, and politicians. Imagineering Atlanta maps the dystopian landscape of American civic life at the end of the twentieth century. RICHARD A. WALKER, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY