Dwight Morton died peacefully in his sleep. He was one of the nation’s most beloved Senators. His reputation as a philanthropist and humanitarian was unmatched. However, his last hours were spent relating a tale to Oscar Phipps, editor of a small South Carolina newspaper. Dwight did not want to go to his reward without confessing to Oscar that a grave sin had been committed over fifty years prior and he had kept it a secret all that time. Dwight was heir to a great Southern family fortune, raised in a life of privilege. Around him, the Jim Crow culture was all pervasive and it would have been far easier for him to ignore injustice and enjoy his family’s perch in high society. That might have been possible until the life of a young black man named Pickle took Dwight’s place at the end of hangman’s noose. 

 

The author grew up in the south during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement and was intimately familiar with the places and events described in this novel. The story covers over half a century of history in the life of one extraordinary man and those who made him what he was to become. This novel will place you there while the events unfold.

 

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