Georgia from Rabun Gap to Tybee Light Author:E. J. Kahn A noted writer travels around Georgia and absorbs the atmosphere of the first Deep South state to produce a U.S. president in more than a century. — He examines with an objective but tolerant eye the hold-on-to-the-Old-Order attitudes of a dwindling number of ultra conservative citizens who cling tenaciously to their reactionary attitudes. I... more »n sharp contrast to them, he presents the new majority of progressive and enlightened Georgians who have played key roles in the state's astonishing social, economic, and political progress in the last quarter-century.
Presented against the backdrop of Georgia's rich and varied history as colony and as state, the author's travels from Rabun Gap in the mountains of north Georgia to Tybee Light on the southeastern coast provide delightful glimpses of the state and its people. These perceptive vignettes should do much to dispel the ludicrous stereotyped image which many persons who are not acquainted with Georgia have of the Empire State of the South and its citizens.« less