This volume presents Joel Chandler Harris’s life of Henry W. Grady, the celebrated Atlanta editor and orator, together with Grady’s writings and speeches. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, was a leading voice of the “New South.”
Harris, himself a famous author and journalist, pays tribute to a colleague who shaped Southern opinion through the press and the lecture platform. The book is a valuable record of post–Civil War American journalism and oratory. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this life and writings of Henry W. Grady.