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In a sweet magnolia time

Judge J. Waties Waring was a South Carolina federal judge in the old-school mode, until, sometime in the 1940s-following an unseemly divorce and instant remarriage-a slow progressive conversion took hold. This story looks mostly at the aftermath, not for Waring but for his protege Arthur Covingdale. Covingdale was supposed to follow Waring to the federal bench, but after Waring's shift destroyed that career path, Covingdale helped burn a cross on Waring's lawn

Print Book, English, 2005
Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, NY, 2005