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Talmadge Farm: An Amazon Best Seller
December 2024 - Talmadge Farm made the Amazon Best Sellers list in Historical Event Literature Criticism.
AudioFile Magazine - Talmadge Farm
Audiobook Review by Justin Price
Caroline Country Magazine - Talmadge Farm
December 2024 Issue “Carolina Bookshelf”
Leo Daughtry Remembers Midcentury South in 'Talmadge Farm'
Writers’ Voices - August 9, 2024
The 2024 Goethe Book Awards Long List for Late Historical Fiction
Chanticleer Book Reviews - October 18, 2024
Readers’ Favorite Review of Talmadge Farm
Readers’ Favorite - October 15, 2024
Johnstonian News - June 19, 2024
Silver’s Reviews - Talmadge Farm by Leo Daughtry
Silver’s Reviews Blog - June 6, 2024
Behind The Words With Leo Daughtry
Reader’s Entertainment Magazine - June 7, 2024
Sampson’s Daughtry Pens Debut Novel
The Sampson Independent - June 4, 2024
Interview with Deborah Kalb - June 1, 2024
Lawyer-Legislator Leo Daughtry Adds “Author” To His Resume
North Carolina Lawyer Magazine - May 22, 2024
Big Blend Radio Podcast
Author Leo Daughtry discusses his historical novel Talmadge Farm that transports readers to the tobacco fields of 1950s North Carolina.
“Daughtry uses descriptive and prosaic prose that not only transports the reader to North Carolina but paints a picture of the South in a way that is literary, engaging, and visceral.”
— BookLife Reviews
“Expansive portrait of mid-century landowners and sharecroppers in the American South. Daughtry capably evokes harsh historical truths of the era, particularly the generational abuse that wealthy landowners inflicted on the descendants of enslaved peoples.”
— BookLife Reviews
“At the heart of the novel is a thoughtful meditation on the inexorability of change, and what happens when justice results in a redistribution of success. Also, Daughtry presents a provocative profile of nepotism in these pages; for all of Gordon’s success, it’s made clear that he was never a superior businessman whose skill brought him riches; in fact, he simply inherited a thriving empire that required very little from him to continue as it always had.”
— Kirkus Reviews