In the early 1800s, as America experienced her newfound freedom, the Mississippi River became a conduit for growth in the heart of the country. From the painful turmoil of Europe and the seed of a southern plantation family, leaders emerged along the river and exerted their energy, bringing inevitable conflict, money, power and religion. Charles Hamel came from the German Revolution, Matthew Walsh and the Archbishop Francis X. Sullivan came from the Irish Potato Famine, and Margot LaTrobe Blair came from the labyrinth of New Orleans society. Margot was the center of a family that was king of cotton, sugar, money and slavery. The three men would climb a ladder of power with conviction and belief in business enterprise, and would confront a tortuous labor union with intensely religious overtones ... and all of them had ties to the beautiful Margot. The story unfolds in New Orleans and St. Louis, two growing cities joined by the Mississippi River, as characters embroil in the boom of commerce, caveat emptor, and the struggle for power and and social finesse. The lives of these four personalities flowed like a river - leading to dominance, personal violence, pain and death. With the final climax of the bloody Civil War, the national society was transformed along with Hamel, Walsh, the Archbishop, and Margot. It was a river of change.
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Burt Dodson, Jr. - This novel, A River of Change, is based on a personal family genealogy study by Mr. Dodson and his avocation of American history. Born in St. Loius in 1931, Mr. Dodson was a product of the Irish-German neighborhoods. At the age of 19, he left to join the U.S. Air Force. His college graduation came from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with graduate work from the University of Oklahoma. He and his wife have raised a family of seven children and traveled extensively throughout the world. He retired from the military as a Lieutenant Colonel and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina for an extended professional position in healthcare. Throughout his marriage of 50 years, the author has been supported by his wife Cecile and their mutual collegiate efforts.
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