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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit

Sun, Nov 4, 2007

Lou Dobbs discusses his latest book, *Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit*. Dobbs has examined the US's public policy choices over the past 30 years. He lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened the rest of America to the breaking point. He explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans.

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Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher

Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Tom Perrotta talks about his newest novel, *The Abstinence Teacher*, which exposes the powerful emotions underlying modern American family life and explores the complex spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. *The Abstinence Teacher* is characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that have animated Tom Perrotta's previous novels. Perrotta is the author of five previous works of fiction: *Bad Haircut*, *The Wishbones*, *Election*, and the *New York Times* bestsellers *Joe College* and *Little Children*.

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The Trouble With Boys: What Parents and Educators Must Do

Wed, Feb 25, 2009

Peg Tyre discusses her book, *The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do*. The book covers why boys are falling behind girls' achievement in school and not attending college in the same numbers.

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Terror Dream: The Post-9/11 American Psyche

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her new book, *The Terror Dream*, a dissection of the mind of America after 9/11. Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. *The Terror Dream* shows what 9/11 revealed about us and offers us the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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Ellen F. Brown: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind

Wed, Feb 16, 2011

Ellen Brown, lawyer and an award-winning freelance writer, discusses the book she co-authored with John Wiley, Jr. The book is titled, *Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood*. She tells the story of the extensive research they undertook in order to write this biography which is focused mainly on the book itself. How it went from a disorganized and incomplete manuscript by an unknown Southern writer and how it was discovered by a major New York publisher and became one of the most popular, profitable, and controversial novels in literary history.

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Jill McCorkle on Going Away Shoes

Fri, Nov 12, 2010

Jill McCorkle talks about her new book, *Going Away Shoes*. This is a collection of eleven new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. Shoes figure largely in these stories of confronting the complications of love—honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, glass slippers—as all the characters march to a place of new awareness, and, in one way or another, transform their lives.

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David Isay: Listening is an Act of Love

Tue, Dec 9, 2008

David Isay tells about his new compilation in print, *Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project*. StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project in American history, has collected the memories of more than 20,000 people from all 50 states and every imaginable walk of life, background, identity group, age and state of mind. Isay is the StoryCorps founder and president. His radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody Awards. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

Thu, Jan 22, 2009

Bob Zellner's memoir, *The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement*, reveals one man's commitment to social justice during the civil rights movement. Zellner focuses on his experience as a civil rights activist from 1960 to 1967. Bob Zellner lives and teaches in New York state. Atlanta-based co-author Constance Curry is also a civil rights veteran and has written several books and produced a documentary film.

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Bernie Schein: If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom

Tue, Jan 13, 2009

Bucking traditional belief that education should be impersonal, objective and formal, Bernie Schein argues that getting personal is the only way to make magic happen in school. A veteran of the classroom and a three-time principal, Schein has spent over 40 years studying how students learn. Through stories from his classroom, *If Holden Caulfield were in My Classroom: Inspiring Love, Creativity and Intelligence in Middle School Kids* describes how true emotion, rather than pure reason, is the key to discovering real relationships and personal truth. Bernie Schein is a former teacher, principal, and educational consultant. He taught English and social studies at the Paideia School in Atlanta. He currently lives in Beaufort, South Carolina, with his wife.

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Stephen J. Cannell: On the Grind

Wed, Jan 28, 2009

TV writer and author Stephen J. Cannell talks about his craft and his latest in the *Shane Scully* detective series, titled *On the Grind*. An Emmy award-winning writer/producer and Chairman of Cannell Studios, he is one of the most prolific writers in television history. He is also the author of some 14 novels. Cannell lives in Los Angeles with his family.

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