[3] Hall was born in Haleburg, Alabama, near the Georgia and Florida borders, and educated in the state's country schools.
[2] Grover was ten in 1898, when his older brother William Theodore Hall started newspaper work in Dothan, Alabama, also in the southeastern corner of the state.
"[5] Hall had previously supported the Ku Klux Klan until it challenged the state's dominant political establishment, the Big Mule/Black Belt coalition, in the election of 1926.
[4] Mencken did not support democracy but theirs was "a remarkable coincidence of views" on less political matters, according to the Hall family biographer (quoted in the review).
[2][7] It was issued by the New York City League for Industrial Democracy as pages 27–40 of a 40-page pamphlet, with a longer article by the editor of The New Republic.
[4] Their son, Grover Cleveland Hall, Jr. (1915 – 1971) followed in his father's footsteps at the Montgomery Advertiser, and later was instrumental in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a lawsuit that came to define defamation in the United States.