Richard J. Hooker

Richard J. Hooker received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. He was one of the founding faculty of Roosevelt University where he taught until 1968 and was for fourteen years chairman of the Department of History. His earlier publications are: The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant; The American Revolution: the Search for Meaning; The Book of Chowder; and Food and Drink in America: A History. He lifes in Beaufort, South Carolina and Lyndonville, Vermont.