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- World War I troubled veteran Joe Delaney attempts to compile a history of his U.S. Marines company but nightmares about the German soldier he killed haunt him still.
- Three young men from the South known as the 'Three Musketeers' fly with the Royal Air Force in World War I. One, John McGavock Grider, is killed in action. His diary is published after the war and becomes a huge publishing success. Much later it is revealed that the diary was actually written by his friend Springs, who felt responsible for Grider's death.
- In 1946 populist governor James E. "Big Jim" Folsom overpowers the planter class who have been running Alabama since the days of slavery. Advocating equal opportunity for African Americans, he is attacked by newspapers and representatives of the privileged class. His protege George Corley Wallace turns from liberalism on race to a different form of populism, based on prejudice toward blacks.
- Alabama-born Eugene Walter lived a magical life, reportedly running away from home at age three, living in the back room of a bookshop at ten, painting coffins in rural Mississippi while in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s and serving as a cryptographer in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. That was before he took an ice cream freighter to France in the late 40s, met and worked with the American born princess who published the world famous literary journal Botteghe Oscure, helped found the Paris Review and acted in the films of Federico Fellini while translating most of the latter's screenplays into English. Along the way he won the Lippincott Prize for first novelists, a Sewanee Review Fellowship in poetry, and became the epicenter of the expatriate community in Rome, where his parties were legendary. Not bad for someone who barely graduated high school and never had a bank account. Eugene Walter was truly an original, a man who made up each day as it came, one of the last of the true Bohemians.
- In the mob-controlled town of Phenix City, Alabama in the 1950s, a crusading lawyer is assassinated after he is elected attorney general on a platform of 'Man Against Crime'. His son reluctantly takes his place, vowing to clean up Phenix City and find his father's killers. Later he uses the race issue to be elected governor so that he can continue his fight against the mob. But his stand as a segregationist leads to tragic results.