In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "e;big slicks,"e; the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's.