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"This is the story of a life which began in Depression-era eastern North Carolina, was enriched by education in Virginia, flowered in a wide-ranging career of historical scholarship and teaching, was given a distinctive point in military and public service, and came to retirement on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Written with introspection and a remarkable degree of candor, readers will make of it what they will. Almost incidentally, the reader is introduced to the sights, sounds, and tastes the rural South and the environments in which the author lived. Always interesting and sometimes controversial, he asks the reader to judge kindly. "