Southern Encounters: Southerners of Note in Ralph McGill's South

by Ralph McGill, Calvin M. Logue (Editor)

For over forty years Ralph McGill wrote and spoke about politics, religion, economics, the military, poetry, Southern history, bees, art, Greece, the press, education, blacks, tenant farming, Andrew Jackson, poker, sports, cooking, India, the 4-H Club, Hitler, television, corn, foreign affairs, human rights, Carson McCullers, music, and the changing seasons in Georgia. This volume includes McGill's own sometimes fiery, always poetic impressions of persons whom he considered to be of some importance for others to know about. McGill introduces us to (or reminds us of) a sweeping variety of persons - poets and philosophers, politicians and demagogues, sportsmen and economists.

348 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

From Wikipedia: Ralph Emerson McGill (February 5, 1898 – February 3, 1969) was an American journalist, best known as an anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1945 to 1968. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959.

McGill was born February 5, 1898, near Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. He attended school at The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After high school, he attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, but did not graduate because he was suspended his senior year for writing an article in the student newspaper critical of the school's administration. McGill served in the Marine Corps during World War