Jean Wilcox Hibben set out to explore a story she heard as a child about a great-grandfather, ascholar and musician who was heralded for serving as Union General William Sherman's scribe during his historic "march to the sea" and capture of Savannah, Ga.
If there was any guy who fully grasped the seriousness of the abyss we were about to skip towards, it was him having endlessly researched the Great Depression as a Princeton scholar.