North Carolina in the 1940s Book

Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1940s. Author Philip Gerard focuses each chapter on a lively and illuminating set of events in the era, such as the music explosion around John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, shipbuilding in wartime, a harsh era of hurricanes and floods, as well as tobacco as the king of the farming and industrial sectors. This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades.