571 pages
English language
Published 1985 by University of Alabama Press.
571 pages
English language
Published 1985 by University of Alabama Press.
"Set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of northern Alabama. The novel's action begins in 1884, when Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of Colonel Miltiades Vaiden as a figure of wealth and power in the city of Florence."--Page 4 of cover.