“In this superb study, Fuller E. Callaway at last finds his biographer and his proper place in Georgia’s and the nation’s story at a turning point of history... After this biography, it will be impossible to think of business history in the New South and the nation without putting Fuller Callaway in the top ranks of his peers.”
- Jamil S. Zainaldin, President, Georgia Humanities Council
“Buck and Carol Melton’s deeply researched and full-bodied biography captures both the public and private lives of this self-made industrialist, setting his remarkable career firmly within the contexts of the multiple stages—local, state, national, and international—on which it played out.”
- John C. Inscoe, Editor, New Georgia Encyclopedia; Albert B. Saye Professor of History, University of Georgia
“Fuller Callaway Sr. was one of the most remarkable figures in Georgia history, a man whose vision, sagacity, and entrepreneurial spirit helped the state recover from the devastation of the Civil War and move with confidence into the 20th century. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the story of American business, in the power of transformational leadership, and in how modern Georgia was created.”
- W. Todd Groce, Ph.D., President and CEO, Georgia Historical Society