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the book
FEW
REMAINING: There are only a few copies
of the First Edition left. Check in these stores:
- Books
for Less in downtown Snellville and Lawrenceville (Highway 20 near
the Braves park);
- Labaire
Pottery, downtown
Norcross
Or order
directly through this site and get a signed copy. The book consists of 850
pages, including more than 143 demographic and historic tables, with more than
4,000 names in the index, and 10,000 names in the appendix.
NEWS
ABOUT GWINNETT
To stay up-to-date about
Gwinnett County, read Elliott Brack's GwinnettForum
twice a week.
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MEET
ELLIOTT BRACK
Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta
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INSIDE THE BOOK
A
"MUST HAVE" BOOK
"Having
an interest in Gwinnett County history, particularly since 1950,
Elliott Brack's book, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, is
a must have.
"Informative
and enlightening, it gives the origin and development of the all
the major governmental agencies and a picture of the business community
as well a highlighting those persons who made it happen. Elliott's
book, containing little known facts and long forgotten stories,
explaining the phenomenal growth of one of the fastest growing counties
in the nation will be read and quoted for years to come."
-- Lawrenceville
attorney Jones Webb
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Elliott Brack is
a native Georgian, a graduate of Mercer University and holds a master's
degree from the University of Iowa.
He for 12 years published
a weekly newspaper, the Wayne County Press in Jesup, Ga., and for
12 years he was vice president and general manager of Gwinnett Daily
News, He also held a similar position with the Marietta Daily Journal.
He has also been a visiting associate professor of journalism for nine
years at the University of Georgia, teaching newspaper management.
For another 13 years,
he was associate publisher of the Gwinnett section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
and wrote a column about Gwinnett four times a week. He presently is publishing
GeorgiaClips,
an executive news digest of Georgia produced each business day, and GwinnettForum,
an Internet moderated discussion site. He's also working on a book on
the recent history of Gwinnett County.
Among his civic activities:
- Citizen of the
Year, 1994, named by Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.
- Former president
of the Georgia Press Association.
- Former chairman
of the Metro Atlanta American Red Cross chapter.
- Chairman of a
successful $1.5 million fund drive for the new YMCA in Peachtree Corners.
- Chairman of a
successful $4.2 million fund drive for a new Salvation Army facility
in Lawrenceville.
- Chairman and president
since 1979 of The Red and Black Publishing Company, the independent
student daily newspaper at the University of Georgia,. In 2002, the
newspaper opened new $2 million home for the newspaper in Athens, which
it now occupies.
- Board Member,
Atlanta Salvation Army
- Founding chairman
of Leadership Gwinnett.
- Founding and current
chairman, Senior Leadership Gwinnett
- Former chairman,
Board of Trustees, Leadership Gwinnett.
- Trustee, Atlanta
History Center
- Member for 15
years of Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications,
representing the Southern Newspapers.
- Delegate to Diocese
of Atlanta Councils since 1980.
- President, Eastern
Continental Divide Association
He and his wife,
Barbara, live in Norcross. They have three adult children and two grandaughters.
They are members of Christ Episcopal Church. Among his avocations are
traveling and hiking in the North Georgia mountains.
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