"If you liked the movie 'Hoosiers' and enjoy high school basketball, this book is for you." These are the words of U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, a former Perry High basketball star and All-State performer on Perry's 1956 state championship team. "Pride of the Panthers" tells the legendary story of Perry High School, which during the decades of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, became the greatest high school basketball dynasty in Georgia History. Its coach, Eric P. Staples, was the winningest high school basketball coach in America. His teams captured a phenomenal 83 percent of their games,...

To be at the bedside of a Christian as death approaches is very sacred. It's 'A Place Where Angels Tread.' I stayed with my departed mother until the funeral home attendant arrived. Before they took her from the room, I asked for several minutes more to be alone with my mother. My whole life from my early childhood days to the present flashed through my mind. There were no regrets. Nobody could have had a better and more loving mother. I knew I had returned that love and done everything I could for her during her recent illness. As I looked at her for the last time and then turned to leave...