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North Carolina in the 1940s: The Decade of Transformation - Hardcover
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by Philip Gerard (Author)
This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1940s--a decade which began with the state gearing up for war just as the last formerly enslaved person passed away. The volume is not a textbook overview of the state's history. Rather, each chapter focuses on a lively and illuminating set of events in the era, such as the music explosion around John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk in the eastern part of the state and Earl Scruggs and traditional string band music in the west, the polio pandemic, shipbuilding in wartime, a harsh era of hurricanes and floods, as well as tobacco as the king of the farming and industrial sectors.
The book contains color vintage photographs and illustrations. The author, writer, professor, and musician, Philip Gerard, has published widely, including an iconic novel about the Wilmington coup of 1898, Cape Fear Rising, and is beloved in North Carolina, especially among Our State readers.
Author Biography
Philip Gerard was the author of five novels, eight works of nonfiction, and numerous essays on history, music, and writing craft, including an iconic novel about the Wilmington coup of 1898, Cape Fear Rising, and The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina. Until his untimely passing in 2022, he taught in the BFA and MFA Programs of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he won a number of awards for teaching excellence. He was coeditor with his wife, Jill Gerard, of Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution and was a frequent and popular contributor to Our State magazine. Gerard was an avid musician and songwriter, a teacher and mentor, and a beloved member of the North Carolina writing community.
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