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$8.95 paperback
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252 pages
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As they mustered out of the
service after World War II, Paxton Davis and his sixteen million fellow
soldiers embark on one of the great benders in American history. Davis
and his comrades quickly set about trying to make up for what they'd
missed during the war. But they soon found that America was changing on
a fundamental level.
Like millions of other
servicemen, Davis took advantage of the G. I. Bill, using it to attend
Johns Hopkins University. After graduation, he returned to his hometown
to work for the local newspaper with its talented, quirky staff. From
his beginnings as a novice who put his carbon paper in the typewriter
backwards and kept his paychecks so long that the business office had to
ask him to cash them, Davis matured into a reliable reporter who knew
how to handle a good story when he heard one.
Yet is was only at the death
of his beloved father that Davis was thrust into a status that neither
World War II nor college nor full-time work had been able to confer upon
him--that of manhood.
about the author
Paxton Davis worked as a reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal
and the Roanoke Times & World News and taught journalism at
Washington and Lee University for 23 years. He was also the author of
twelve books, including the other titles in his series of memoirs, Being
a Boy and A Boy's War.
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