Hallelujah, Alabama! is a wickedly funny and wise satire of contemporary Southern politics and culture. Writer Robert Ely tells the tale of Richard Steick, PhD, Esquire, a good man who wants to do good despite feeling a bit unsteady in his own moral universe. When he discovers that a wealthy corporation has made billions over the decades off mineral rights rightfully belonging to the descendants of a group of ex-slaves, the gentlemanly barrister takes tooled leather briefcase in hand and mounts the judicial ramparts. Steick’s manuevering brings him into an unusual alliance with a powerful black legislator and up against moralizing Governor Sid Scroulous and assorted state bureaucrats.