guest: i hope it doesn t sound too trite but for me it was sincere. it was the bth of my own son inecember 2002i was workings a reporter livina fast-paced life as a newspaper journalist writing to be the guy that i thought my dad never was, at interest, risk-tang, then you have your own son and began to k yourself questions about your own relationship with your own dad and i began to wonder if there was anything i could dor whether it was to leave or not to try to make amends for the bratty kid i was who pushed him away and didn t want ything to do with it. .. and so, he never was able to see his homeland other than through a child s eyes and i think that left a very deep, very profound impression on him and one that he would never forget, and so maybe he is a littl sentimental about it but think the fun they understand that now that was one of the things i wouldn t have gotten if i had left my job to write this book. host: when people see this in the bookstores they ll s
and you remember that scene in gone with the wind where those great siege victims, rhett butler and scarlett o hare a r. racing through the flames and the falling embers, and that was in fact as presented in the movie, was that first grade bonfire caused be departing confederate. that you might ask why isn t the fall of atlanta the most significant event in american history? why would i say more so, than say, independence day, or the fall of the battle of gettysburg, or the election of franklin telemark roosevelt ordered the day or v-j day? well, the fall of atlanta meant that the confederacy s heart had been pierced. northern peace democrat who had hoped to have a negotiated settlement to the war were finished. lincoln would win a second term. and all but the diehard confederates understood that the war was over. there was a much more war to be fought, but when sherman would make sure that the conderates who were diehard would indeed die. his march to the sea departing fro