Discovering North Carolina

This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources — histories biographies diaries novels short stories newspapers and magazines — to show how North Carolina’s rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state’s best-known sons and daughters from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner Doris Betts and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics sports business family life education race religion and war.