Quest for Progress, The: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1870-1920 by Sydney Nathans. 1983. Hardcover.

Few would have guessed in 1870 that within fifty years North Carolina would be the most industrialized state in the South. This book recounts that half-century of turbulent change and growth. This is the 4th volume in this pioneering series that uses historical places as windows to the past.