Transformative Years is Daniel Meador's account of his four years as dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970. Those were indeed transformative years, bridging the Law School of the past to the Law School of the future. Working on the premise that this institution was a crucial training ground for the state’s future legal and political leadership, the author, with the backing of university president Frank Rose, moved rapidly to build the school up in every respect -- alumni involvement in fund raising, faculty, curriculum, library, and student life. All of these steps are described, along with the challenges presented by entrenched and limited expectations. The book describes the problems the author faced, in the context of their time and place, the steps taken to overcome them, and his dashed hopes in the ultimate denouement. The book concludes with a summary of what turned out to be lasting changes in the school as a result of those four years.
Remberton, a small Alabama town, is the setting for this 1970s story of class, change, divided love, death, honor and dishonor, and a lawyer's commitment to the law. A shocking chain of revelations is set in motion when tenant farmer's son Jesse Rooter comes back after thirty years, now a multi-millionaire. Embittered over having been treated by the town in his youth as a nobody, he is bent on revenge, but a strange kind of revenge. While there, he begins to suspect that the long-ago drowning of his hell-raising brother was not accidental. To investigate, he engages Noble Shepperson, the town's leading lawyer. Scandalous facts come to light, implicating prominent citizens. But even darker secrets emerge in their wake. Along the way, Noble Shepperson is torn by romantic entanglements with both a local divorcee and an English woman he met during World War II. In the end, Jesse's revenge and Noble's conflicted love are resolved with surprising twists.
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