Category: Book Reviews
Books old and new that offer eye-opening perspectives on the deep South and the story of its people.
24.06.2022
The Middle Passage in Slave Times -and Later
Mid-career I found myself in a new setting. After leaving Pebble Hill Plantation, I served a stint with…
11.06.2022
Connections: A Trip to Philadelphia, Bartram’s Travels and a Tree from Georgia’s Colonial Frontier
More than two years into the Covid lockdown, our lives have changed. Gardening has taken over at…
04.06.2021
REVIEW: William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake; George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne and the Invasion That Opened the West. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Make no mistake, I choose not to review books unless I feel they are credible and well done,…
25.02.2021
Christopher Knowlton,Cattle Kingdom; the Hidden History of the Cowboy West. New York: Mariner Books, 2018.
Books about the cowboys and the long cattle drives that made them an enduring America archetype, beginning with…
08.01.2020
Theo Lippman, Jr., The Squire of Warm Springs; FDR in Georgia, 1924-1945.Chicago: Playboy Press, 1977.
I have been a professional historian all my adult life and know that it is often sentiment that…
23.12.2019
Max Cleland with Ben Raines, Heart of a Patriot; How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
I met Max Cleland while serving as director of the Pebble Hill Foundation in Thomasville, Georgia. I lived…