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November 8, 2023
Join us at The Bookhouse for a book talk and signing with local author Douglas Shouse, author of American Janus.
American Janus
A Novel of the South and Its Reckoning with the Civil War and Reconstruction
By Douglas Shouse
AMerican Janus is the story of a North Carolina Confederate veteran and his family at the dawn of the 20th century. While looking forward to the promise of the figure, Harper Clayton can never truly slip his inescapable past as a soldier in the American Civil War and Freedmen’s Bureau agent during Southern Reconstruction.
About the Author:
Douglas Shouse is an amateur historian with a special passion for American military history. He has spent more than thirty years as a marketing strategist in corporate brand marketing and marketing agencies where he honed his craft in creative writing. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Economics and MBA from WFU’s school of Management.
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Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.