A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court

Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton is professor of history, The University of Alabama in Birmingham, and is the author of Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours (UAP, 1982) and the editor of Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights (UAP, 1978), among other works. Hugo Black: The Alabama Years was first published in 1972.