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To Win and Die in Dixie: The Birth of the Modern Golf Swing and the Mysterious Death of Its Creator
By : Steve Eubanks
DESCRIPTION : A fascinating biography of a forgotten golf legend, a riveting whodunit of a covered-up killing, a scalding expos? of a closed society?in To Win and Die in Dixie, award-winning writer Steve Eubanks weaves all these elements into a masterly book that resurrects a superb sportsman and reconstructs a startling crime. J. Douglas Edgar was the British-born golfer who broke every record, invented the modern swing, and coached such winners as Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur in history, and Alexa Stirling, the finest female player of her day. But on August 8, 1921, he was a man dead in the middle of the road, the victim, conventional wisdom said, of a hit-and-run.Comer Howell thought otherwise. He was an Atlanta Constitution reporter and heir to the paper?s fortune, a man frustrated by his reputation as the pampered boss?s son. To Howell, the physical evidence didn?t add up to a car accident. As he chronicled Edgar?s life, Howell discovered a working-class striver who had risen in the