Once Upon a City: Greensboro, North Carolina’S Second Century
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It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our disappointments, our accomplishments all come alive.
Joseph B. Mullin, Pastor Emeritus
First Presbyterian Church
Greensboro, North Carolina
Howard E. Covington Jr.
Howard E. Covington Jr. is an award-winning journalist and author of history and biography. Among his twenty-four books are Favored By Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham (winner of the N.C. Literary and Historical Association’s 2004 award for non-fiction), Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon, and Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress & Outrageous Ambition (co-authored with Marion A. Ellis). He is a native of North Carolina and with his wife, Gloria, has been a resident of Greensboro since 1980.
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