Storm Chaser: The Terry Law Story - Paperback

James Gilbert is a student and historian of modern American Culture. The search for understanding twentieth century America led him to write books that explore world's fairs in Chicago and St. Louis, religion and science, juvenile delinquency, radical literary journals, the mind of Progressive intellectuals in the late 19th century, and the history of the 1950's. Unlike some other historians who have mined a single field, he has ranged widely in his interests, a reflection, perhaps, of his reaction to the ever-changing puzzle of American culture and its amazing creative energies. He has spent most of his academic teaching career at the University of Maryland, near Washington, DC, but with many appointments to universities elsewhere including Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Uppsala, Sweden, the University of Paris, Warwick University in the United Kingdom, Tubingen and Erfurt Universities in Germany, and the University of Virginia. He grew up in Chicago and attended Carleton College in Minnesota (with a year abroad in France), and the University of Wisconsin. He has lived for substantial periods of in London, England, Paris and Nice, France, and Berlin, Germany. He currently resides near Washington, DC.