Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1047
ISBN: 9780881469387
Price: $60.00
This folio of more than two hundred-fifty photographs with a foreword by President William D. Underwood and accompanying text by Gordon Johnston celebrates Georgia's oldest private university. Mercer University enrolls more than 9,000 students each academic year in twelve colleges and schools on campuses in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus, and at centers in Henry and Douglas Counties.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P697
ISBN: 9780881469394
Price: $16.00
Join Mercer University's mascot, Toby, on a fun-filled tour around campus, stopping at all his favorite places on the way to the big game. This illustrated journey is sure to become a keepsake for generations of Mercerians to come.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1048
ISBN: 9780881469455
Price: $27.00
Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. ABOVE AND BEYOND tells the story of that growth through one of its most significant families--the Masons.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P708
ISBN: 9780881460179
Price: $20.00
On the heels of a global pandemic, two post-menopausal Appalachian women, one black, one white, abandoned hearth, home, and spouses shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study abroad together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr. Poet E.J. Wade and author Karen Spears Zacharias roamed from the depths of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. THE DEVIL'S PULPIT & OTHER MOSTLY TRUE SCOTTISH MISADVENTURES is part travelogue, part memoir, part poetry, and in outlandish Scottish storytelling tradition, a wee bit of winging it.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1051
ISBN: 9780881469608
Price: $45.00
Joshua Hill served in the United States House of Representatives prior to the Civil War and strongly opposed secession. During the War he ran for governor as the so-called peace candidate and later met with William T. Sherman in peace negotiations that failed. In November 1864 when the March to the Sea reached his hometown, Hill interceded with the Union command and earned his legendary, if sometimes exaggerated, title as the man who saved Madison, the village "too pretty to burn." Bradley R. Rice's meticulous research has produced a long overdue account of the life and times of the man who was, as his gravestone reads, "a staunch southern friend of the Union."
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1053
ISBN: 9780881469677
Price: $45.00
This is the story of Morehouse College, which still fosters the idea that black men can be educated for stewardship and service not only to their communities but to the world. The beliefs and dreams of the founders of Augusta Theological Institute in 1867 have developed into a world-class institution of higher education.
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Product Code: HH1054
ISBN: 9780881469691
Price: $45.00
R. William Johnstone examines Wyche Fowler's career in winning election to and serving in the U.S. House and Senate, including his pivotal role in the Nicaragua Contra war and the 1990 budget summit. The Georgian served as a coalition-builder and negotiator, playing important roles in passing such landmark bills as the Social Security Amendments of 1983, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Highlighted are examples of Fowler's well-known storytelling, which has been a major part of his efforts to reach out and bond with others, including constituents and colleagues.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P719
ISBN: 9780881469615
Price: $35.00
In the years prior to the Civil War, a small fleet of sailing vessels plied the waters of the southeastern coast between lower South Carolina and northeastern Florida, transporting cargoes between the port of Savannah and the small port towns and plantations of the region. This story of the little studied local coasting trade shows its vital role in the coastal plantation economy and its importance in Southern maritime history.
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Product Code: HH1052
ISBN: 9780881469745
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $30.00
Over the course of nearly four decades, thousands of spiritual seekers from around the globe made the unusual pilgrimage to the rural whistlestop of Plains, Georgia, for a remarkable opportunity to glean enduring lessons from Scripture taught by one of the world's most unlikely Sunday School teachers--the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
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Product Code: HH1059
ISBN: 9798897360031
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $27.00
TRUDY'S AWAKENING is a historical novel set in the latter half of nineteenth-century Georgia that tells the story of three women whose lives were intermingled as they worked to overcome society's barriers to their progress and success. Gertrude Thomas, "Trudy" to her friends and family, grew up in wealth and privilege but lost it all in the aftermath of the war. Amanda "Mae," along with her mother Lurany, were enslaved to Gertrude's family and yearned for freedom. Lizzie Jeter was a middle-class young woman who dreamed of being a professional artist. All three faced tremendous obstacles in a world that wished to limit and suppress their talents.
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Product Code: P724
ISBN: 9780881469844
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $25.00
DECEPTIVE SPEED vividly tells the compelling, inspiring story of Eddie Lee Ivery's journey from a tiny ramshackle home with no plumbing, to a prestigious engineering university, to an NFL storied franchise--where he played for the team's venerated former superstar Bart Starr, who struggled to field a winning team as head coach. After two devastating injuries to the same knee, how did Ivery will his way to a 9-year NFL career? How did he become homeless? How did he climb out of his self-destructive drug addiction?
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Product Code: HH1057
ISBN: 9780881469981
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $32.00
While much has been written about Mary Phagan's murder and Leo Frank's subsequent trial over the past 115 years, very little has given voice to Lucille Selig Frank and other women connected to the horrific events that took place between 1913-1915. Lucille was part of a mission to make Governor John Slaton aware of the antisemitism being shown to Leo during his arrest and trial. She paid a heavy price for her courage.
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