The Children of Pride; A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. good. xxv, [1],1845, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. The Principal Characters. Who's Who. Index, a few pages wrinkled, some wear to board edges. Inscribed by the Editor. Charles Colcock Jones Sr. (December 20, 1804 - March 16, 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia. In 1972, literary critic Robert Manson Myers published a huge collection of Jones family letters in The Children of Pride. The New York Times, again in a front-page article, cited The Children of Pride as "one of the five significant books of 1972" and as one of the important, lasting books of the 20th century. The Children of Pride won the coveted Carey-Thomas award in 1972. The book won a National Book Award (1973). MYERS, Robert Manson, Ph.D. was a distinguished professor of English literature and an acclaimed author. Myers went to Harvard for a master's degree in English literature and, the following year, for another one at Columbia University en route to a doctorate, which Columbia conferred on him in 1945. He then began his teaching career, first at Yale, then The College of William and Mary, then Tulane and finally at the University of Maryland at College Park, from which he retired in 1986. In 1972, he completed a 20-year project with the publication of "The Children of Pride, A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War," as told in his selection and editing of some 1,200 letters of a cultivated Georgia plantation family during the years 1854 to 1868. The New York Times gave it an unprecedented front-page glowing review by Madison Jones, who wrote that the book tells the story of the Old South and its destruction "as it has not been told before, in the fullness of its poignance and tragedy."