The Millionaires by Inman Majors

A novel of the new south, of good old boys moving to the "big" city. Business, politics, networking, and loyalty all interweave. Two brothers bound together conquer a fictional Knoxville, Tennessee and bring the World's Fair by hook and by crook. The writing is very good, the plot is actually quite sophisticated, and at the end of the book you realize it is really not about the brothers but about a secondary character who is present but background in most every scene.