“Black Tuesday: A Novella” by Allan C. Hanrahan is now available for purchase
“And he also wondered how many of these students might later trade their books for shovels and hoes in the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
– an excerpt from the book
AR Press is honored to publish “Black Tuesday: A Novella” by Allan C. Hanrahan. Get a copy of the book that is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARPress website.
Allan C. Hanrahan was born in North Carolina and reared on the Virginia Peninsula, where he lived before moving to Smithfield, Virginia, in 1991. He graduated from Newport News High School, the NASA Apprentice School, and Christopher Newport College, where his curriculum was a major in English and a minor in history, including art history. He did graduate study at George Washington University in administrative science.
He retired from NASA (where he had written for 22 years his Personnel Profiles column for the in-house publication The Langley Researcher and took proofreading courses) and became a substitute schoolteacher and then middle school tutor before beginning to freelance for the Oyster Pointer newspaper for 20 years.
Over the years, he has contributed freelance articles—mostly with drawings—to the Daily Press and reviewed books for that publication, as well as for The Virginian-Pilot. He has contributed to such other publications as The Virginia Cavalcade and Good Old Days magazines. He continues to do pen-and-ink drawings.
In 2013, with the invaluable assistance of Parke Press of Norfolk, Virginia, he produced his first book, Times & Places: A Glimpse of Life on the Virginia Peninsula. He is presently creating a sequel to that work, but in the meantime, he has completed Black Tuesday: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and other works.
As an academic project, the author extensively researched the day and era of the cataclysmic financial event, the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929; its roots and causes, which he labeled The Gathering Storm; The Day Itself; The Deluge; and its aftermath. Concurrent with the history unfolding is the capture of the flavor of the early third of the Twentieth Century, especially of New York City, where the event transpired, and the lives and loves of a host of characters assembled by Hanrahan to show that the financial tragedy had its share of victims, participants, and affected onlookers.
“Black Tuesday: A Novella” by Allan C. Hanrahan is now available for purchase via ARPress Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/bookstore/black-tuesday-a-novella/.