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Offers a thorough accounting of two critical University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) presidencies in the early twentieth century. . . . Covington has performed an important service.--North Carolina Historical Review Explains how the 'fire' of Graham and the 'stone' of his successor, Chase, transformed UNC from a quiet liberal arts institution into a respected university equipped to provide an academic experience that prepared students to participate in a growing commercial, industrial, and agricultural New South.--PineStraw A worthy contribution to the history of American higher education and, in particular, to understanding the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the years between its near collapse during the era of Reconstruction and the activist presidency of Frank Porter Graham during the Great Depression.--The Journal of Southern History

Offers a thorough accounting of two critical University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) presidencies in the early twentieth century. . . . Covington has performed an important service.--North Carolina Historical Review

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Howard E. Covington Jr. of Greensboro is the author or coauthor of more than fifteen works of North Carolina history and biography. Among his books are Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress and Outrageous Ambition; The North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made A Difference, 1900-2000; Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham; Once Upon A City: Greensboro, North Carolina's Second Century; and Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became An American Icon. In, 2004, Favored by Fortune received the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association's Ragan Old North State Award for best non-fiction by a North Carolina writer. In 2010, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library published his The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government as the first volume in its Coates University Leadership Series.

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