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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book, especially in the fact that the writer was also a speech writer for George Wallace, infamous Southern biggot and racist.  Maybe that shows Carter´s true talent then, the ability to switch between such different literary voices...the question is, which voice is his?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit that I liked this book a whole lot better the first time I read it and thought it was a memoir...but it still was good, and recalls an absolutely beautiful part of the country to mind.<br/><br/>I also have to admit my opinion of it is now tempered by the knowledge that it is a fake...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50847789">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incapable of determining a certain number of stars for this book. Shocking discovery: Asa Earl Carter (aka Forrest) was no orphan and no Indian. a white supremacist!!!  worked for Alabama governor George Wallace and public proponent of segregation. later ran for governor against Wallace on the white...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66732611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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