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The Books of the States: Georgia (15 electoral votes)

As impressed as I was with New Jersey yesterday, I have to say that Georgia, with its identical 15 electoral slots to fill, holds up its end of the deal. Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers, plus one-of-a-kind cultural icons like Gone with the Wind, The Color Purple, and Deliverance, not to mention the preacher whose words might be better known to us than any other 20th-century writer? That’s a pretty good start. (Am I the only one in whose mind O’Connor and McCullers are joined? It’s not really that I confuse them, but between the early successes and the early illnesses, the first names that sound like last names, and the last names that scan almost the same…. I imagine they look alike, too, although they really don’t at all.)

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I burned up too much of my blogging time this afternoon digging into those David Foster Wallace videos, so I’ll have to leave you my nominations shorn of much of the usual commentary, but here are 15 to reckon with.

There are plenty more candidates I can think of: Mark Pendergast’s For God, Country, and Coca-Cola, Al Stump’s revisionist biography of Ty Cobb, Kim Cooper’s excellent

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