The Secret of the Second Coming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781484938942)

With a double major in philosophy and comparative literature from the University of Tennessee, Howard E. Cook went on to earn an MA in English from CCNY before going to Paris to pursue advanced studies in French language and literature at Schiller International University - Paris. During the fabulously radical sixties he lived in Greenwich Village, NY, and did freelance writing and copy editing for various publishers; Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, TIME, Life, Fortune, and Look to name a few. He lived on storied Gay St., an easy walking distance to Washington Square where, in those heady days, the hippies and the folk singers gathered, and where the counter culture and sexual revolutions were finding a rallying point. While doing postgraduate work at Hunter College and City College he taught english at Columbia Grammar School in Manhattan. Shaking the dust of Gotham from his feet, he then returned home to Athens, Tennessee. He taught French and English at Calhoun High School, near his beloved Athens, until that school closed. He then moved on to teach French at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Hiwassee College in Monroe County. Now approaching his 95th year he has seen the world drastically evolve, lived through 2 world wars and a great depression, and has been front and center as he witnessed the marvel of technology and the internet emerge.