North Carolina in the 1940s

The Decade of Transformation

Philip Gerard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

132 Seiten

2022
John F Blair Publisher (Verlag)
978-1-949467-82-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Table of Contents

Prelude: The Decade of Transformation

One: The Liberty Armada

Two: Soundtrack of the Decade

Three: Home of the Airborne

Four: The Deluge

Five: Land of Blue Smoke

Six: Fields of Dreams

Seven: Their Finest Hour

Eight: The Great Fontana Dam

Nine: The Big Blow of ‘44

Ten: Close Ranks Before Striking

Eleven: Learning the Black Mountain Way

Twelve: A Man for his Time

Thirteen: The Devil Dogs Find a Home

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	North Carolina through the Decades
Zusatzinfo	25 vintage photographs and illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-949467-82-1 / 1949467821
ISBN-13	978-1-949467-82-6 / 9781949467826
Zustand	Neuware