Donald McCaig
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born
January 01, 1940
gender
male
place of birth
Butte, Montana, The United States
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Historical Fiction
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Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Jacob’s Ladder designated “the best civil war novel ever written” by The Virginia Quarterly. People magazine raved “Think Gone With the Wind, think Cold Mountain.” It won the Michael Sharra Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction.
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Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.44 — 1,862 ratings — published 2007 16 editions |
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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.88 — 80 ratings — published 1998 6 editions |
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Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig avg rating 4.04 — 57 ratings — published 1984 9 editions |
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Canaan: A Novel of the Reunited States after the War by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.65 — 23 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Nop's Hope by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 1994 4 editions |
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Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men by Donald McCaig avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 1991 9 editions |
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A Useful Dog by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2007 |
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An American Homeplace (Virginia Bookshelf) by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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The Bamboo Cannon by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1988 2 editions |
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The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club by Donald McCaig avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2007 |
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"I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is an ill-advised ornament who contradicts her gentleman."
— Donald McCaig (Rhett Butler's People)
— Donald McCaig (Rhett Butler's People)
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"You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works."
— Donald McCaig
— Donald McCaig
""'Patriotic'? Dear, dear me!" Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishment. "I didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them.""
— Donald McCaig (Rhett Butler's People)
— Donald McCaig (Rhett Butler's People)
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