Andrew Singletary's Reviews > A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South

I really enjoyed this book. Although I did not know Hamilton Jordan personally except for an occasional meeting in the elevator when he was a neighbor of mine at Colony House for a while after he returned to Atlanta from Washington, and even though he was three or four years older than I, we had many of the same experiences growing up in SW Georgia. Growing up in a much smaller town about 50 miles from Albany, Albany was the "big city" to me. It was where people from my home town went to shop, see doctors, dine out, go to movies, and enjoy the offerings of the Albany Community Concert series at the Albany High School Auditorium. Reading this book brought back many memories of shopping at many of the establishments mentioned, eating and swimming at Radium Springs, reading The Albany Herald each afternoon, and many more.

Although I did not realize it then, I was in Albany just a couple of months ago for a meeting, and since I was early I drove around the neighborhood in which he grew up and passed by his childhood home. It is still a beautiful neighborhood very near downtown Albany. All of the streets in the neighborhood are lined with beautiful live oaks which form an incredible canopy over the streets.

Many thanks to Hamilton's children for taking his manuscript, editing it, and getting this book published.