"Beneath and Before the Kudzu"
Highly recommend this, and have done so many times since
Learning about overlooked real events, research in the minutest detail, and conveyed in an engaging way through the lives of principal individuals.
Very direct and well paced; never gets in the way of the narrative, only enhances it. Authoritative without sounding pedantic.
The South will never be the same.
The story is a book of passion and discovery by a well respected, objective, obsessively dedicated,