""Set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of Alabama, the novel's action begins in 1884... and it centers on the emergence of Colonel Miltiades Vaiden as a figure of wealth and power in the city of Florence. Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters...a good story filled with diverse and vital characters, and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next.""@en
""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."
""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."@en
"Traces the lives of the Vaiden family of the Florence and Lauderdale County area, addressing many topics considered taboo in the South."@en