Southern Families: Their Friends, Servants, Rivals, and Affairs 1901-1911 - Hardcover

Alexander, Michael V C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1462887945 ISBN 13: 9781462887941

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2011

Synopsis

This novel is set in Perquimmons City, North Carolina, an imaginary town of roughly 5,500 people (slightly over 40 percent black). Although it doesnt ignore the serious racial problems of the early twentieth century, their depiction isnt the novels main purpose. Its main purpose is to describe the underlying tension between an extremely snobbish and aristocratic familythe Merrittswho live in one of the states few surviving antebellum mansions and whose forebears had dominated the area around Perquimmons City until the early 1880s.

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A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Michael Alfred Van Cleave Alexander received an AB in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1960 shortly after being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta (national history honorary society). He then received a graduate fellowship at UNC and earned his MA and PhD degrees there. He twice did extensive research in England, first on a Fulbright-Hays Grant in 1964-1965 and then on a Junior Humanists' Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1970-1971. Meanwhile in 1967, he obtained a tenure-track position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg where he taught until his early retirement in 2001. In 1971 he married Ann Barton Field of Richmond, Virginia, who received a PhD in history from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 1974. They have two sons: Mike, who's a financial analyst and the senior vice president of his company in New York City, and Peter, who, after receiving a PhD in biochemistry at Texas Southwestern Medical University in Dallas, accepted a two-year postdoctoral research grant from Duke University where his wife Krista is a resident at Duke Hospital.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462887945
• ISBN 13: 9781462887941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260