Howard E. Covington, Jr.’s Book is “Beyond the Bank: Hugh McColl’s Chapter 2”
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In this episode 215, we visit with Howard Covington, Jr., author of “Beyond the Bank: Hugh McColl’s Chapter Two,” an in-depth look into the great legacy of Hugh McColl’s philanthropy after his retirement from Bank of America and some of the unique aspects of his character and philosophy that made him successful.
In his 80s, McColl remains a force for good in Charlotte, North Carolina, from his career at Bank of America to the capital he invests into his neighbors in order to better the community.
Paul Leonard, former CEO of Habitat for Humanity, had this to say about the book: “Hugh McColl has never stopped learning, listening, caring, investing, and sharing his remarkable resources and knowledge with people from all walks in life.”
Michael Marsicano, president and CEO of the Foundation For The Carolinas, says: “Nothing motivates Hugh McColl more than leading collaborations of strong voices to spark innovative solutions for the challenges of our time.”
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About the Author:
Howard E. Covington Jr. is native of Concord, N.C., and a 1965 graduate of the University of Florida. He was a University Fellow of the American Political Science Association at the University of Michigan in 1973. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.
An early newspaper career as reporter and editor began in Florida and included more than a dozen years at North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer where he created and co-wrote a series of articles that in 1981 won, among other national awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service. For the past forty years, he has written more than twenty-five award-winning works of history and biography.
Additional Works
Among his subjects is former governor and U. S. senator Terry Sanford, a title published by Duke University Press in 1999. He is the co-author of The Story of NationsBank, Changing the Face of American Banking, which was published by the UNC Press in June 1993.
Favored By Fortune is a four-generation biography of the Hill family of Durham, N.C. It was published by UNC Chapel Hill Library and received the 2004 Old North State Award from the N.C. Literary and Historical Society for best non-fiction by a North Carolina writer.
His book about the private preservation of Biltmore Estate, Lady On The Hill, was published by John F. Wiley & Sons in 2006. It is now in a third printing.
In November 2010, UNC-Chapel Hill Library published The Good Government Man, a biography of Albert Coates, the founder of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. That was following in 2018 with Fire and Stone, a biography of UNC presidents, E.K. Graham and Harry Chase, who were responsible for the emergence of the university as a major academic institution in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This book received the 2019 book award of the North Carolinian Society.
He also is the author of a biography of Henry Frye, the first African American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, (McFarland, 2013).
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