A Nutshell History of North Carolina

by Ben Fortson

Overview

From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history.

Author and illustrator Ben Fortson presents that history in the form of off-the-wall anecdotes, poignant insights and sublimely silly illustrations. Take a hilarious look at Daniel Boone's larger-than-life Carolina personality. Peruse an uproarious account of the Andrew Jackson birthplace controversy or politically astute commentary on the power of tobacco in the state. Fortson takes readers on a side-splitting and educational ride through the annals of Tar Heel State history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467119283
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	430,549
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ben Fortson writes and illustrates Almost Off the Record, a zanily clever history comic (almostoff.com), and has published several-books containing collections of his comics. Eager to expose the quirky and ridiculous plot lines of history, his most recent book, A Nutshell History of North Carolina, provides a rigorous and amusing portrait of his home state, complete with equally unorthodox illustrations. He lives in Black Mountain with his wife and three children.

Editorial Reviews

This will be the most fun North Carolina history book you will ever read, and it will have many students across the state wishing it were part of the curriculum. In his "A Nutshell History of North Carolina," Ben Fortson travels from the state's piratical beginnings to its growth as the "The New 'Old North State'" via 2015. Told and illustrated in a series of humorous and entertaining vignettes, Fortson shows a flair for the funny — and education. Mountain Times

"From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history. In A Nutshell History of North Carolina, author and illustrator Ben Fortson presents that history in the form of off-the-wall anecdotes, poignant insights and sublimely silly illustrations.

Take a hilarious look at Daniel Boone's larger-than-life Carolina personality. Peruse an uproarious account of the Andrew Jackson birthplace controversy or politically astute commentary on the power of tobacco in the state.

Fortson takes readers on a side-splitting and educational ride through the annals of Tar Heel State history." Black Mountain News

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