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Following the lazy twists and turns of a river steeped in history and threatened by corruption.

A star on the rise during Hollywood's Golden Age.

The Senate's champion of segregation endured long after the Dixiecrats were history.

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The novelist maps a twenty-first century city through the lives of four of its natives.

A matchless man of letters contemplates the end.