The enjoyment and disappointments in a young man's life are told in this trilogy. In the first book, he is forced to cut his journalism education at the University of Missouri short because of his father's unexpected death. The second book tells of his efforts in making the family's struggling weekly newspaper profitable during the height of the Great Depression while wooing his university sweetheart through love letters.

He finally seems to achieve his "bowl of cherries" future.....or does he?