Bloody Toombs : Memoir and Allegory

By Bob Darby

Toombs County, Georgia is named after Robert Toombs, a Confederate General in the Civil War. For many decades, it has been called "Bloody Toombs" because of its reputation for alleged lawlessness and violence, often of a racial nature.The memoir "Bloody Toombs" is about growing up white and privileged in Toombs County during the fifties and sixties; coming of age in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement; being an antiwar activist in San Francisco, Boston, and Atlanta during the Vietnam War; and studying at Tufts and Harvard after graduating from Emory University in the late sixties. Much of the book chronicles the author's affliction with manic depression, which has been in remission since 1991. "Bloody Toombs" is called an "allegory" as it deals with social and ethical issues of universal application and concern.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512301981
• ISBN13: 9781512301984
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"