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This is the story of the lives and political careers of three men - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton - who attained prominence within that struggle and who acquired undying fame by representing Georgia in the congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence.

An excellent book fore understanding the settlement of Georgia from the Creek Indian point of view." - The Book Report

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When the little band of English colonists who arrived with James Edward Oglethorpe set foot upon the soil of Georgia in 1733, they found themselves in a strange and alien land. The hardships which they endured in establishing their settlement in the virgin forest were eased by the friendship of the aged Indian chieftain Tomochichi, who immediately became their friend.

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50 Georgia Stories, an anthology by thirty-five Georgia authors, preserves the richness and color of a rural heritage which recedes a little farther every day. A True Treasury of Georgiana.

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Francis Robert Goulding (1810-1881) was born in the Midway Community of Liberty County, Georgia. At nineteen, he graduated from the University of Georgia and at twenty-two received his degree from the Columbia (South Carolina) Theological Seminary and ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1833. His pastorates included Greensboro, Washington, Eatonton, Bath and Darien. In 1842, while serving a pastorate in Eatonton, Georgia, Goulding developed...

The plot of GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT concerns the experiences of a young Gentile writer who poses as a Jew in order to secure material on anti-Semitism for a series of magazine articles. A thesis novel concerning the social and economic aspects of anti-Semitism in American life. Timely when issued in 1947 - timely today. Number 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller List for five straight months in 1947. Film version chosen as Best Picture ...

The America of Carl Sandburg tells of the effect of the American tradition on the poet and of his impact upon America. It is a study in depth, showing the unconscious Scandinavian influences, the conscious French influences, and the effect on Sandburg's writings, both poetry and prose, of Lincoln, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and, of course, Whitman. The author develops a clear picture of Sandburg's place in American literature by comparison and ...

1928. The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and all so forced by circumstances, that it is almost Greek in its simpl...