South Carolina Books

Tells the story of how a culture survived and adapted to new surroundings. The story of its basketry is the central vehicle. Of interest to those who like basketweaving and those who like stories of different peoples cultures.

On the subject of guidebooks, here's one that's tough to beat. Bob Newman has divided North America's Southeast Coast into a series of discrete areas, like images on a strip of film, and then tells what you need to know to fish each area. Excellent maps will help you find your way. If it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then these maps must be worth 10,000 words each. Newman also provides lists of accommodations, restaurants, fly and tackle shops, marinas, guides and other services. After dissecting North Carolina, he does the same for South Carolina and Georgia, describing the fishing in similar detail for each state. Then comes Offshore Action, a chapter on "green-water" and "blue-water" species, including tackle requirements and tactics, and another chapter on trip planning, with tips on how to arrange hotel, air or rental car reservations and how to choose a guide. Newman writes in a straightforward, breezy style and tosses in just enough anecdotes to keep things lively. As the subtitle indicates, this guide covers "light-tackle" as well as fly fishing, but the emphasis seems more on the latter. A good index helps make the book user-friendly. Kudos to Newman for a thoroughly written and professional job. With this book in hand you'll run like a train, jump like a tarpon, charge for your boat, swear to catch fish, and pull out your fly rod-Yowza! Steve Raymond

Finally, a cd-rom that offers useful information for travelers and others interested in Savannah. As a satisfied owner of the Charleston Armchair tour, I was thrilled to find that other historic cities are also available in this quality product. With the included maps, you can choose any building in the historic district and get several pictures with information about architecture, history, and stories of the building. I especially enjoyed the 'front door' and 'gardens, squares, and parks' tours. The photography is beautiful and includes a number of panoramic 360 degree pictures. I can't wait to revisit Savannah again now that I know what to look for.

I bought this book because i live in the south, and all the schools i applied to are in the south as well.

This book goes into depth about each one; it doesn't go REALLY in-depth, but it gives more information than any other book . It has about 20 pages of information on every college, which is more than most books- that usually don't have more than 3/4 pages on a single college. It talks about all the colleges on about 15 different aspects, a few that some books dont even mention, which is quite helpful.

The book is also extremely well organized. It's easy to look up any of the colleges in different aspects easily.

I recommend this book as it gives you good information on all the colleges it includes, both negative and positive feedback. It judges colleges not only on an overall basis, but also on many different aspects, which helps one see the specific strengths and weaknesses of each college.

Written by Bob Cowser, Jr., whose previous book "Dream Season" was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Scorekeeping: Essays from Home is a simple memoir of small-town boyhood, as witnessed by the son of English professors among insular and close-knit townies. Leading the reader through Cowser's adolescence in rural Martin, West Tennessee followed by New Orleans and Lincoln, Nebraska, Scorekeeping covers both wonder and tragedy. From the savory taste of a barbeque sandwich, to learning that a friend from past years had been named in a lawsuit over the death of a young woman, to confronting the question of whether he should attend a reunion at his own school, Cowser's trip through memory lane comes alive with emotion, reflection, and plain and simple honesty.

This is a story that children of school age can identify with. It touches on recent history, family values, and the importance of the lighthouses along our coasts. A lovely book to share with "landlocked" friends as well as those who are fortunate enough to live along coastal areas.

In the sea of books that detail the locations of the best restaurants, souvenir stores, waterslides, amusement parks, and putt-putt that humans have to offer - this book and the other seasonal guide books float on their own - and tell readers where they can find the best that Mother Nature has to offer.

The greatest threat to American liberty, prosperity, and national security today comes not from outside our borders but from within; it is our own ignorance of the ideas that made our country great. In Federalist No. 51, Madison warned us "a dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government." While our Founders framed our Constitution that pit the several branches of government, both state and federal, against each other to limit the concentration of power, they knew that these paper chains could only restrain the ambition of our governors as long as common people understood, and stood up for, the rights the Constitution was designed to protect. Today, we have slid so far that the words of the Constitution are often twisted to reach exactly the opposite result they were designed to achieve. The only way to know this is to examine the original intent of the Founders as expressed in their own speeches and writing. The Federalist Papers are, of course, the primary source for understanding the Constitution. But these works, written to persuade our forefathers of the sensibleness of the Constitutional design, could not anticipate the subtle arguments that real world greed and ambition would devise against the Constitution's plain language. This is where Hyneman's A Second Federalist fills the gap. No sooner than the Constitutional plan was put into action did controversies arise over the powers granted to both state and federal governments. A Second Federalist presents these challenges in the words in which they were framed, and the responses of America's great early statemen, many of them signers of the Constitution themselves. A single example is all that is necessary to prove the worth of the book. Today, big government politicians regularly justify our massive welfare state and the process of wealth redistribution - using the law to steal - with the "general welfare" clause of the Constitution's preamble. Madison himself answered this trick when it was tried in 1792, and Hyneman presents the text of Mr. Madison's floor speech in the House of Representatives refuting the claim the federal government had power to redistribute wealth. Unfortunately for America, the ideas of Mr. Madison, the Father of the Constitution, have lost the debate today. But if we are ever to return to the understanding of the Constitution possessed by the men who wrote it, it will only be because of excellent books like Mr. Hyneman's A Second Federalist. Buy two copies of this book and give one to a friend.

THIS WONDERFUL BOOK GIVES THE READER A GOOD LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH AND ITS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE. AS GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA WE SEE HAMMOND ADVISING HIS MASSACHUESETTS FRIEND IN CHARLSESTON FOR FACT FINDING TO LEAVE THE STATE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. THE GOV. IS UNABLE TO PROTECT HIS LIFE IF HE REMAINS. HAMMOND COMPLAINS THAT HIS WIFE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH A SLAVE IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND HIS SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HER TWELVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. WE SEE THE SELF-JUSTIFICATION OF THIS MORAL, CHRISTIAN MAN WHO SUPPORTS ENSLAVEMENT OF THE INFERIOR RACE.

This work is an outstanding example of a marriage of adventure and history in a work of fiction. Tallent combines all the necessary elements to keep all readers interested. The book, while juvenile in nature, has a sufficently entertaining plot and keen characterization. I live in the area in which the story is set (Allendale County, SC), and the description of the landscape is also fairly accurate. As a history buff who is always up for a good mystery, I enjoyed this book immensely. Alex Cone