Reviews
"A perfect book for the well-appointed coffee table . . . It chronicles a time when leisure was the perquisite of great wealth, when the monied elite of America sought splendid and exclusive isolation on one of Georgia's Golden Isles ."-- Georgia Journal, "A fascinating book . . . An in-depth study into an institution that has come down through social history more in myth than in fact."--Baltimore Sun, "Through the rich use of architectural drawings, maps, and above all, photographs, the Jekyll Island Club history could not be more endearingly told."--Virginia Quarterly Review, "Extensive and very readable . . . A well-documented and extensively illustrated history."--Georgia Librarian, "Professors McCash are to be commended for this intelligent, long-need study. Working from widely scattered club records, letters, and diaries, they have crafted a compelling, sometimes poignant, social history. Interspersed with dozens of beautifully evocative photographs, it is one of those rare productions possessing an appeal to scholar and layman alike."--Alabama Review, "Through the rich use of architectural drawings, maps, and above all, photographs, the Jekyll Island Club history could not be more endearingly told."-- Virginia Quarterly Review, "In this lavishly illustrated volume . . . 240 photographs speak eloquently of 'the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible' social organization in the world."--Booklist, "A fascinating book . . . An in-depth study into an institution that has come down through social history more in myth than in fact."-- Baltimore Sun, "A perfect book for the well-appointed coffee table . . . It chronicles a time when leisure was the perquisite of great wealth, when the monied elite of America sought splendid and exclusive isolation on one ofGeorgia's Golden Isles."--Georgia Journal, "A carefully researched, well-written, lavishly illustrated volume that evokes a lost, fairytalelike era."--Islands, "A carefully researched, well-written, lavishly illustrated volume that evokes a lost, fairytalelike era."-- Islands, "In this lavishly illustrated volume . . . 240 photographs speak eloquently of 'the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible' social organization in the world."-- Booklist, "Professors McCash are to be commended for this intelligent, long-need study. Working from widely scattered club records, letters, and diaries, they have crafted a compelling, sometimes poignant, social history. Interspersed with dozens of beautifully evocative photographs, it is one of those rare productions possessing an appeal to scholar and layman alike."-- Alabama Review
