In A Sweet Magnolia Time makes a major contribution to American history and American literature, for it explores the life and times and legacy of Waties Waring, the South Carolina federal judge whose epic opinion in Briggs v. Elliot that "separate but equal is not equal," predated by two years of the 1954 Supreme Court Decision that came to the same conclusion.
"Wintner ends up nicely illuminating a corner of a turbulent era."
Publishers Weekly
"It rings with authenticity-and not just with language. Wintner's insights speak of intimate, ingrained, firsthand knowledge of Southern culture with its almost incomprehensible (certainly peculiar) racial dynamics and comedy of manners that overarch all behavior."
Dr. Gloria Randle, former professor of African-American Literature at Loyola and Michigan
