Atlanta Burns

Atlanta Burns

Author: Chuck Wendig

Publisher: Skyscape

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781477827109

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"Part one of Atlanta Burns was first published in 2011 by Chuck Wendig as the novella Shotgun gravy. Parts two through five of Atlanta Burns were first published in 2012 by Chuck Wendig as the novel Bait dog."--Title page verso.


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Download or read book Atlanta Burns written by Chuck Wendig and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part one of Atlanta Burns was first published in 2011 by Chuck Wendig as the novella Shotgun gravy. Parts two through five of Atlanta Burns were first published in 2012 by Chuck Wendig as the novel Bait dog."--Title page verso.


The Bonfire

The Bonfire

Author: Marc Wortman

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1586484826

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In this history of Atlanta's destruction, the author offers points of view of Confederate and Union soldiers and officers during a pivotal moment in the Civil War. By the author of The Millionaire's Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power, in development as a feature film.


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Download or read book The Bonfire written by Marc Wortman and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2009 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of Atlanta's destruction, the author offers points of view of Confederate and Union soldiers and officers during a pivotal moment in the Civil War. By the author of The Millionaire's Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power, in development as a feature film.


I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Author: Robert E. Burns

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0820343013

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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.


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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.


The Anniversary Dinner of the Burns Club of Atlanta at Burns Cottage, January 25, 1929, Etc

The Anniversary Dinner of the Burns Club of Atlanta at Burns Cottage, January 25, 1929, Etc

Author: Burns Club of Atlanta (ATLANTA, Georgia)

Publisher:

Published: 1929

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Rage in the Gate City

Rage in the Gate City

Author: Rebecca Burns

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0820342912

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During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice. But racial hatred came to the forefront during a heated political campaign, and the city's newspapers fanned its flames with sensational reports alleging assaults on white women by black men. The rage erupted in late September, and, during one of the most brutal race riots in the history of America, roving groups of whites attacked and killed at least twenty-five blacks. After four days of violence, black and white civic leaders came together in unprecedented meetings that can be viewed either as concerted public relations efforts to downplay the events or as setting the stage for Atlanta's civil rights leadership half a century later. Rage in the Gate City focuses on the events of August and September 1906, offering readers a tightly woven narrative account of those eventful days. Fast-paced and vividly detailed, it brings history to life. As June Dobbs Butts writes in her foreword, "For too long, this chapter of Atlanta's history was covered up, or was explained away. . . . Rebecca Burns casts the bright light of truth upon those events."


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Download or read book Rage in the Gate City written by Rebecca Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice. But racial hatred came to the forefront during a heated political campaign, and the city's newspapers fanned its flames with sensational reports alleging assaults on white women by black men. The rage erupted in late September, and, during one of the most brutal race riots in the history of America, roving groups of whites attacked and killed at least twenty-five blacks. After four days of violence, black and white civic leaders came together in unprecedented meetings that can be viewed either as concerted public relations efforts to downplay the events or as setting the stage for Atlanta's civil rights leadership half a century later. Rage in the Gate City focuses on the events of August and September 1906, offering readers a tightly woven narrative account of those eventful days. Fast-paced and vividly detailed, it brings history to life. As June Dobbs Butts writes in her foreword, "For too long, this chapter of Atlanta's history was covered up, or was explained away. . . . Rebecca Burns casts the bright light of truth upon those events."


Response by Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., to the Toast "The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns."

Response by Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., to the Toast

Author: Haywood Jefferson Pearce

Publisher:

Published: 1929

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Response by Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., to the Toast "The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns." written by Haywood Jefferson Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Mountain People and the Burning of Atlanta

Mountain People and the Burning of Atlanta

Author: Horace Marcus Coffey

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Mountain People and the Burning of Atlanta written by Horace Marcus Coffey and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Centenary of the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony

Centenary of the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony

Author: Burns Club of Atlanta

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Centenary of the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony written by Burns Club of Atlanta and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Burns as a Pioneer Democrat

Burns as a Pioneer Democrat

Author: Lucien P. Goodrich

Publisher:

Published: 1929*

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Burns as a Pioneer Democrat written by Lucien P. Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1929* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Response by A.W. Cozart to the Toast "The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns."

Response by A.W. Cozart to the Toast

Author: Abraham Whitenack Cozart

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Response by A.W. Cozart to the Toast "The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns." written by Abraham Whitenack Cozart and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: