Author: Steve Eubanks
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345521978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding exposé of a closed society—in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs a startling crime. J. Douglas Edgar was the British-born golfer who broke every record, invented the modern swing, and coached such winners as Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur in history, and Alexa Stirling, the finest female player of her day. But on August 8, 1921, he was a man dead in the middle of the road, the victim, conventional wisdom said, of a hit-and-run. Comer Howell thought otherwise. He was an Atlanta Constitution reporter and heir to the paper’s fortune, a man frustrated by his reputation as the pampered boss’s son. To Howell, the physical evidence didn’t add up to a car accident. As he chronicled Edgar’s life, Howell discovered a working-class striver who had risen in the world through a passion to succeed, a quality the newspaperman admired. And as he investigated Edgar’s death, Howell also found a man whose recklessness may have doomed him to a violent demise. Cutting cinematically between Howell’s present and Edgar’s championship past, To Win and Die in Dixie brilliantly portrays one man’s quest for excellence and another’s search for redemption and the truth. Their stories meet in a Southern society of plush country-club golf courses, vast wealth, and decadent secrets. Filled with the vivid golf writing for which its author is renowned, To Win and Die in Dixie is a real-life story both shocking and inspiring, a book that propels Steve Eubanks to a new level of literary achievement.
To Win and Die in Dixie
Author: Steve Eubanks
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345521978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding exposé of a closed society—in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs a startling crime. J. Douglas Edgar was the British-born golfer who broke every record, invented the modern swing, and coached such winners as Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur in history, and Alexa Stirling, the finest female player of her day. But on August 8, 1921, he was a man dead in the middle of the road, the victim, conventional wisdom said, of a hit-and-run. Comer Howell thought otherwise. He was an Atlanta Constitution reporter and heir to the paper’s fortune, a man frustrated by his reputation as the pampered boss’s son. To Howell, the physical evidence didn’t add up to a car accident. As he chronicled Edgar’s life, Howell discovered a working-class striver who had risen in the world through a passion to succeed, a quality the newspaperman admired. And as he investigated Edgar’s death, Howell also found a man whose recklessness may have doomed him to a violent demise. Cutting cinematically between Howell’s present and Edgar’s championship past, To Win and Die in Dixie brilliantly portrays one man’s quest for excellence and another’s search for redemption and the truth. Their stories meet in a Southern society of plush country-club golf courses, vast wealth, and decadent secrets. Filled with the vivid golf writing for which its author is renowned, To Win and Die in Dixie is a real-life story both shocking and inspiring, a book that propels Steve Eubanks to a new level of literary achievement.
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345521978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding exposé of a closed society—in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs a startling crime. J. Douglas Edgar was the British-born golfer who broke every record, invented the modern swing, and coached such winners as Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur in history, and Alexa Stirling, the finest female player of her day. But on August 8, 1921, he was a man dead in the middle of the road, the victim, conventional wisdom said, of a hit-and-run. Comer Howell thought otherwise. He was an Atlanta Constitution reporter and heir to the paper’s fortune, a man frustrated by his reputation as the pampered boss’s son. To Howell, the physical evidence didn’t add up to a car accident. As he chronicled Edgar’s life, Howell discovered a working-class striver who had risen in the world through a passion to succeed, a quality the newspaperman admired. And as he investigated Edgar’s death, Howell also found a man whose recklessness may have doomed him to a violent demise. Cutting cinematically between Howell’s present and Edgar’s championship past, To Win and Die in Dixie brilliantly portrays one man’s quest for excellence and another’s search for redemption and the truth. Their stories meet in a Southern society of plush country-club golf courses, vast wealth, and decadent secrets. Filled with the vivid golf writing for which its author is renowned, To Win and Die in Dixie is a real-life story both shocking and inspiring, a book that propels Steve Eubanks to a new level of literary achievement.
To Live and Die in Dixie
To Live and Die in Dixie
Author: R. Michael Givens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986301018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To Live and Die in Dixie was envisioned as a companion to I'll Take My Stand, in the hopes the two volumes may rest side-by-side (between readings) on an accessible shelf for as long as the job may take. The job being: the total vindication of the Southern and Confederate Cause. To Live and Die in Dixie was not penned by the Agrarians, but by some of today's best philosophers and historians. Herein, you will find twenty-seven essays which are designed to supply the weapons needed to take on the intellectually challenged and misinformed purveyors of modern historical imbecility. Intelligence is a weapon of self-defense. If you don't know your own history then you will be helpless and ignorant before someone who merely claims to know your history!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986301018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To Live and Die in Dixie was envisioned as a companion to I'll Take My Stand, in the hopes the two volumes may rest side-by-side (between readings) on an accessible shelf for as long as the job may take. The job being: the total vindication of the Southern and Confederate Cause. To Live and Die in Dixie was not penned by the Agrarians, but by some of today's best philosophers and historians. Herein, you will find twenty-seven essays which are designed to supply the weapons needed to take on the intellectually challenged and misinformed purveyors of modern historical imbecility. Intelligence is a weapon of self-defense. If you don't know your own history then you will be helpless and ignorant before someone who merely claims to know your history!
To Live and Die in Dixie
Author: Theodore Roscoe
Publisher: New York, Scribner [1961]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Scribner [1961]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
To Live and Die in Dixie
Author: Michael R. Bradley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962410086
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962410086
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
To Win and Die in Dixie
Author: Steve Eubanks
Publisher: ESPN Video
ISBN: 9780345510815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From prolific golf-writer Eubanks comes the fascinating true story of the unique life and the mysterious death of J. Douglas Edgar, one of the great figures in the history of golf.
Publisher: ESPN Video
ISBN: 9780345510815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From prolific golf-writer Eubanks comes the fascinating true story of the unique life and the mysterious death of J. Douglas Edgar, one of the great figures in the history of golf.
To Live and Die in Dixie
To Life and Die in Dixie
Author: Gerald White Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
To Live and Die in Dixie
Author: John McGlone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889332178
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889332178
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
To Live and Die in Dixie
Author: K Trochneck
Publisher: Smithmark Pub
ISBN: 9780831754419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Smithmark Pub
ISBN: 9780831754419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description