2002 News Archive

E. Randall Floyd Featured on Cover-to-Cover

AUGUSTA – Augusta author E. Randall Floyd was the featured guest on Georgia Public Radio’s Cover-to-Cover program September 30 to talk about his critically acclaimed
Civil War novel, Deep in the Heart.

Now in its 9th printing, Deep in the Heart traces the odyssey of seven young Georgia farm boys who battled the Yankees from Seven Pines to Gettysburg, finally surrendering with General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. Mr. Floyd spent more than a decade researching and writing the book.

Based on a true story, Deep in the Heart is more than a book about heroic deeds and bloody sacrifices on the battlefields of the Civil War. It is also the deeply moving story of one family’s bittersweet devotion to “the Cause,” and about how one small Georgia town and its people survive the horrors of Sherman’s invasion.

Publishers Weekly called Deep in the Heart a “modern Civil War classic,” while Prof. Glenn Linden of Southern Methodist University and author of Voices From the House Divided, praised it as “the best book about the Southern experience during the Civil War I’ve seen in a long time—maybe the best.”

The program began at 8 p.m. and lasted the full hour. Cover-to-Cover host St. John Flynn said, “Deep in the Heart captures the horrors of the Civil War on both the front line and the home front as few books have done. Tune in for this discussion of one of the most compelling recent novels of the Civil War.”