The old South and the new provide the rich background for this rousing, panoramic novel that traces the lives of the Taylors - a family who rose out of the ashes of the Reconstruction to build and rule the Georgia city of Laurelton.
Jack Hoffenberg (1906-1977) was an advertising executive in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, who became a novelist after relocating to California in the 1950s.