Georgia Books

We are day trip addicts and this book is an awesome addition to our travel library. We recently relocated to GA and found this book full of possibilities. It explains all aspects of the attraction, rating cost, ages and so on. A must have if you live in GA or are visiting!

This is one of the best science books I've read. Wish my high school teachers used it. It has a few errors, but the website give you corrections. Also, you can use it along with Google searches to get more information. Love this book. Will take text next month. Recommend 4 weeks of study with this material before you test.

Finnell's entry in the Great American Long Poem Contest is unlike any other I can think of. The individual sections skitter and swoop over great realms of aesthetic, personal, and historical territory, and the tone ranges from hilarity to wistfulness. In the guise of a meditation on Gauguin's strange allegorical painting, Finnell offers an indescribable mixture of family history, dream vision, artistic rumination, and slanted autobiography--all turning on and returning to the questions posed by Gauguin's title: "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" These huge questions fairly beg for solemnity and bardic posturing, but Finnell addresses them with consummately sly and strange offhandedness. Overall, his imagination is so odd, his sensibility so charming, his diction so fresh and capacious that it's easy to get lost in this book-and even easier to enjoy it.

Donald Revell's poetry combines spare silences and a weird jazzy imagery that is hauntingly original. One can feel the musical imagery of Klee here, as if the words and their sensations had been transformed into a shifting, living song full of the slight horrors and joys of everyday living. Formally, Revell is among the most progressive poets alive. And stylistically, he is all his own. If someone asked me where poetry is today, I would answer, right here.

While many people readily connect Henry Benning with the US military installation, the deeds and details of his life have slipped into obscurity. Even in his hometown, the historical marker that once pointed to the location of his home and briefly described him is no longer there. His home, and the entire city block on Broad Street in Georgia has been demolished. Today, Benning's old neighborhood has been replaced by Total Systems, a modern coporate office facility.

Henry L Benning was a wise, prudent and selfless servent of causes that he felt were just. Benning excelled as a military leader and his career as an attorney is legendary. He served his home state as a Solicitor General and as a Justice of the Supreme Court. His career as a successful attorney earned him the reputation as a champion of truth and justice. He was also a devoted husband, loving father and a generous friend.

This is an excellent research book for anyone interested in the life of General Henry Lewis Benning. The chapters in this book's pages include The Columbus Bank Cases; Succession of the Confederacy; The Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga and the "Riot in Raleigh"; and the East Tennesse Campaign and the Battle of the Wilderness. There are almost a hundred photographs, maps and illustrations in this book. Footnotes appear throughout the book and reference the reader to countless resources for research. A thirty-two page index is at the end of the book.

An engaging narrative of the founding and growth of this town-turned-city in southwest Georgia. The authors captured the flavor and spirit of the area, enhanced by the intriguing photographs. A coffee table book that's "good to the last drop". --Brenda--

Rarely does a photographer inspire such consistent emotion as you will find in this beauitful book. Craig Tanner shares an intimate love of Georgia with his breathtaking photography. This man is destined to be one of our most treasured artists in landscape photography.

Tanner has yet again a stunning selection of Georgia's beautiful places. Each year's calendar is a delight.

When you learn about the Original 13 Colonies the emphasis is always on Jamestown in Virginia, because it was first, Massachusetts Bay, because that is where the Pilgrims landed, and Pennsylvania, because that is where Ben Franklin ended up. Georgia, as the southern most colony, receives scant attention and all you really learn is that it was settled by criminals. But as Nancy Robinson Masters points out in this look as "Georgia" for the America the Beautiful, Second Series, it was not exactly criminals in the same sense that the English sent convicts to settle Australia, but more of a second chance for those who had ended up in debtor's prison. Consequently, when young readers finish this book they are going to remember the name of James Edward Oglethorpe.

Oglethorpe is introduced in Chapter One, "A New Settlement," which explains why Georgia was named for King George II (the good one, not the bad one of the American Revolution who is King George III). The next three chapters cover the history of Georgia, starting with Chapter Two, "People and Pathways of the Past," which goes back to the original nomads who settled the area and then looks at the Cherokee and Creek native tribes, as well as the Spanish explorers, French Huguenots, and English settlers who arrived. After laying out Oglethorpe's Grand Plan, the chapter ends with the American Revolution. Chapter Three, "Troubled Times," covers the Civil War and Sherman's March to the Sea along with Reconstruction. Chapter Four, "The Twentieth Century and Onward," starts with the Weevil War and ends with the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chapter Five of these books always looks at the geography of the state, but "Natural Georgia" is different because it does not look at the topographical divisions of the state, which, I admit, is one of the things I have been finding interesting about these books. But Masters ends up doing that in Chapter Six, "Highways and Byways," just to be different. The politics of the state is covered in Chapter Seven, "The Power of the People," which includes a look at some of the political leaders the state has produced, such as Jimmy Carter and Newt Gingrich. This is also the chapter where you find out how "Georgia on My Mind" as sung by Ray Charles became the state song and the controversial history of Georgia's state flag.

The Georgia economy is covered in Chapter Eight, "Progress and Prosperity," which is more than peanuts, cotton, and peaches. In fact, Georgia is first in the nation in selling chickens. Chapter Nine, "The Many Faces of Georgia," looks at not just education and religion, but also integration. Then in Chapter Ten, "The Arts, Architecture, and Athletics," we find out about the writers (Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker), musicians (Johnny Mercer, Jessye Norman), and athletes (Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Mel Blount) the state has produced.

As always, you will find a Timeline comparing U.S. and Georgia state history in the back of the book along with several pages of Fast Facts. Then there is a list of books, organizations and Internet sites where you can to To Find Out More. There are also lots of full-color photographs and original maps, along with the informative sidebars where young readers will find out some of the most interesting things about Georgia. This includes people like the Revolutionary Heroine Nancy Morgan Hart and Eli Whitney the Father of Mass Production, things like the Colossal Fossil of a 40-million-year-old whale skeleton and a recipe for Peach Pie, and places like the mounds built by the Mississippians in Georgia. Young readers will discover that for a place that was settled by "criminals," a lot of impressive people came from Georgia, from Sequoyah and Stonewall Jackson to George Washington Carver and Ted Turner.

The "Portrait of America" series is a wonderful introduction for pre-teens to the 50 states and to the places and events that shaped the history of the United States. This "Georgia" installment is particularly good. The book is broken down into sections like "History", "Culture", "Economy" etc., and each section is thoughtfully written and edited. The "History" section is especially good and is very inclusive. This wasn't just Scarlet O'Hara's homeland, everyone. The rich heritage of the Peachtree State is finally given its just due.

This book, as well as the entire "Portrait of America" series, will prove to be a valuable teaching tool to all primary school educators.