Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in hearsay and folklore as profusely and as controversially as has James Monroe Smith, who became a millionaire farmer around the turn of the twentieth century. He was born near Washington, Georgia, in 1839 and died on his plantation a few miles from Athens in 1915.Smith’s plantation Smithonia” was measured in terms of square miles. He developed an empire of farming and allied interests, among which was a railroad to connect his plantation with other rail lines. He served terms in the state legislature in both the house and the senate, and in 1906 ran unsuccessfully for governor.The colorful career of Smith, a bachelor, did not end with his death but was kept alive in numerous claims and counter-claims in the settling of his estate. E. Merton Coulter seeks to separate fact from fiction in his account of Smith’s varied activities and the final dissolution of his wealth.

James Monroe Smith: Georgia Planter, Before Death and After

Biographies & Memoirs

Coulter, E. Merton

Regional U.S.

Univ of Georgia Press

Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. Lamar Memorial Lectures, No 21)

Davis, Richard Beale

Literature & Fiction

The author looks back on his childhood, his experiences as a conscientious objector during World War II, and the start of his teaching career

First Acts: A Memoir

Reid, Benjamin Lawrence

Historical

The Reign of Elizabeth I

'...[it is] the first comprehensive attempt to put together the work [about the reign of Elizabeth I] in a handy and palatable form, and it has succeeded.' - Conrad Russel, Times Educational Supplement  '...a most useful book, for scholar and student alike.' - D.M.Loades, University College of North Wales  '...an impressive list of contributors...Students will find this as useful for the Elizabethan period as the best of the volumes already published [as part of the Problem in Focus series] have been for the following century.' - Geography and History  'Students will find this as useful for the Elizabethan period as the best of the volumes already published have been for the following century.' British Book News

History

Americas

Though historically essays were the province of revered writers such as Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.B.Yeats, William Hazlitt, D.H.Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, the word essay has come to be a general rather than specific term for any type of prose writing other than fiction. Formally slighted, excluded from literary study and relegated to a lesser status behind fiction and poetry, the essay nonetheless maintains an uncelebrated popularity through contemporary writers such as Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Paul Theroux and James Baldwin. In "Essays on the Essay", Alexander Butrym has assembled 21 essayists who explore the limits of this "abandoned" genre - through history, criticism and appreciation. Scott Russell Sanders claims that the essay allows a first-person narrator to explore writing in ways not possible in other more strictly defined genres. Barbara Mellix channels into her essays a mastery of and appreciation for language learned through speaking "black" English at home and writing "proper" English at school. O.B.Hardison, Jr, insists that the essay is the predominant form of modern writing and, in fact, is a form of writing read by everyone. Other essays look specifically at the work of T.S.Eliot, Loren Eiseley and Aldo Leopold, as well as the writings of historically well known essayists who expanded the boundaries of acceptability in essay writing and added their own interpretations of the genre. The collection also includes specific pieces about teaching the form, defining the genre and analyzing the structures of essays. Arguing for the vitality and popularity of an often underrated genre, Butrym presents an assortment of essays reflecting in themselves how varied the form can be.

Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre

History & Criticism

"When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father."
From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. On August 7, 1967, prosecutor Floyd "Fuzzy" Hoard was killed by a car bomb in his own front yard in Jackson County, Georgia. Summoning the memories of the events surrounding that day, Alone among the Living is G. Richard Hoard's remembrance of the father he lost on that day, and of his subsequent struggle to come to terms with the murder.

Alone Among the Living a true story of an adolescent's grief over his fathers murder

Self-Help

Hoard, G. Richard

Death & Grief

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